sesameseed

See also: sesame seed

English

Noun

sesameseed (plural sesameseeds)

1. Rare form of sesame seed.
   • 1934 March 9, The Covina Argus, volume 49, number 10, Covina, Calif., page eight:

     Sesameseed Rolls

   • 1942 March, Pieter K. Roest, “French Equatorial Africa”, in Foreign Agriculture, volume 6, number 3, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 93:

     For fat, the natives prefer palm oil, but also use peanuts and sesameseeds or shea butter, especially north of the seventh parallel (11, pp. 33-43).

   • 1972 March 6, William F. Hall, “Sudan Buys U.S. Wheat For the First Time Since Arab-Israeli Conflict”, in Foreign Agriculture, volume X, number 10, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 9, column 2:

     Traditionally, the Sudan has been the world’s leading exporter of sesameseeds. Value of sesame shipments rose from $16.2 million in 1962-64 to $23 million in 1969. Sesameseeds are shipped mainly to Italy and Japan.

   • 1984, Lai Kuan Fook, The Hennessy Book of Chinese Festivals, Kuala Lumpur: Heinemann Asia, →ISBN, page 5, column 2:

     When people join together to stir up the Yu-sarng which has been overlaid with sauce, wine and sesameseeds, they plunge their chop-sticks into the mass of raw fish and ingredients and shout to each other with glee, lou hei, lou hei, which carries the implication, “let’s all enjoy success together in all our undertakings”.

   • 1985 June 5, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 19, number 33, San Francisco, Calif., page 12:

     Double bacon cheese burger with grilled onion on a sesameseed bun

   • 1992 August, Robert L. Tetrault, “Cotton Production in Mexico and Central America”, in World Agricultural Production, Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, page 40:

     The Government has encouraged a shift of some area, traditionally planted with cotton, to other crops such as sesameseeds, soybeans, peanuts, and sunflowerseeds.

   • 1992 October 6, Howard Gershen, Erik Hilsdale, Navigating the MeldC: The MeldC User’s Manual (Technical Report, CUCS-031-91), New York, N.Y.: Columbia University, Department of Computer Science, →OCLC, page 13:

     We might set up a classification scheme for bagels. The class known as bagel could consist of: plain bagels, raisin bagels, salted bagels, pumpernickel bagels, sesameseed bagels, poppyseed bagels, etc. We could make a slight reorganization of this system by including poppyseed and sesameseed bagels under a single category: seeded_bagel. Now sesameseed bagels are in the class of seeded_bagel, which is itself in the superclass bagel.

   • 1997, Lily Brett, In Full View, Sydney, N.S.W.: Picador, published 1998, page 134:

     They make the bagels in front of you, thousands of them a day, in the store. Poppyseed bagels, sesameseed bagels, plain bagels, onion bagels, garlic bagels, raisin and cinnamon bagels, wholewheat bagels.

   • 2007, Lisa Lynam, Triathlon for Women: A Mind-Body-Spirit Approach for Female Althetes, Oxford, Oxon: Meyer & Meyer Sport, →ISBN, page 151:

     Try hummus, a chickpea, sesameseed paste spread.

   • 2014, Food and Nutrition in Numbers 2014, Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, →ISBN, page 244:

     Vegetable oils and animal fats / Includes soyabean oil, groundnut oil, sunflowerseed oil, rape and mustard oil, cottonseed oil, palmkernel oil, palm oil, coconut oil, sesameseed oil, olive oil, maize germ oil, other oilcrops oil, butter, ghee, cream, raw animal fats, body oil (fish) and liver oil (fish).