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Semnopithecus
Semnopithecus (gray or Hanuman langurs), genus Desmarest 1822 of Indian subcontinent colobine monkeys, sister to Trachypithecus; former single species S. entellus now a complex including S. schistaceus, S. priam, S. hypoleucos.
Semnopithecus entellus
Semnopithecus entellus, the Hanuman langur or Northern Plains Gray Langur, is a colobine monkey of the northern Indian subcontinent; IUCN Least Concern, decreasing, with disputed species boundaries among South Asian gray langurs.
Semo Sancus, Aedes
Aedes Semo Sancus (Temple of Semo Sancus Dius Fidius), Roman temple of the oath-god on the Quirinal near the Porta Sanqualis, open to the sky, festival 5 June, with a second chapel on the Tiber island.
Semolina
Semolina is the coarse granular milling product of durum wheat, defined by sieve size and ash limits in US and Codex standards, used for dried pasta, couscous, porridge, and Indian rava dishes.
Semper fidelis
Semper fidelis, commonly abbreviated as Semper Fi, is a Latin phrase meaning "always faithful," best known as the official motto of the United States Marine Corps, adopted in 1883.
Semperoper
Semperoper: Dresden opera house by Gottfried Semper, home of the Saxon State Opera and Staatskapelle Dresden. Three buildings: 1841 (burned 1869), 1878, destroyed 1945, rebuilt 1985. Wagner and Strauss premieres.
Sempervivum
Sempervivum, houseleeks or hen-and-chicks, is a Crassulaceae succulent genus of 51 accepted species native from Europe to Iran and Morocco, grown for evergreen rosettes that die after flowering and spread by stolons.
Sempiternal (album)
Sempiternal (2013) is the fourth album by British metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon, their RCA major-label debut produced by Terry Date with keyboardist Jordan Fish. Debuted at No. 3 in the UK; Gold-certified, with Platinum single Can You Feel My Heart.
Sempra
Sempra is a San Diego-based energy holding company formed in 1998, whose California and Texas utilities and infrastructure business deliver energy to nearly 40 million consumers.
Sempra Infrastructure
Sempra Infrastructure is a Houston-based energy infrastructure company and subsidiary of Sempra that develops LNG export facilities and pipelines in the United States and Mexico.
Sempron
Sempron, also known as AMD Sempron, is a brand of budget x86 processors sold by AMD from 2004 until the early 2010s, competing with Intel's Celeron.
Semqen
Semqen was a bearer of the title "ruler of foreign lands" during Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, known only from scarab seals, and possibly an early Hyksos king of the 15th Dynasty.
Semrush
Semrush is an online visibility management software platform offering SEO, advertising research, content marketing, and AI visibility tools; founded in 2008, it was acquired by Adobe in 2026.
Semtech
Semtech is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Camarillo, California, founded in 1960, that makes analog and mixed-signal chips and owns the LoRa low-power wireless technology.
Semtex
Semtex is a plastic explosive made of PETN and RDX, developed in the late 1950s by chemist Stanislav Brebera in Czechoslovakia and named for Semtín, its Czech production site.
Semu people
Semu people (色目人) were one of four categories into which China's Yuan dynasty sorted its subjects for appointments, examinations, and inheritance of office, alongside Mongols, Han people, and Southerners.
Semuloparin sodium
Semuloparin sodium (AVE5026, Mulsevo) is Sanofi's ultra-low-molecular-weight heparin (2000-3000 Da, anti-Xa:anti-IIa >30:1) for VTE prevention; effective in SAVE-ONCO and hip replacement trials, but its EU application was withdrawn in 2012.
Semuncla
Semuncla: Roman road station in Lucania, southern Italy, on the Via Popilia between Grumentum and Nerulum, known only from Antonine Itinerary 104.7; unlocated, probably in the Upper Sinni Valley, distinct from ad Semnum of the Peutinger Table.
Semuni Dorsa
Semuni Dorsa, a 514-km ridge belt (dorsum) on Venus at 75.9N 8.0E, named 1985 for an Ulchian Siberian sky goddess; lies on the northern margin of Fortuna Tessera and is interpreted as an extinct convergence and underthrusting zone.
Semustine
Semustine (methyl-CCNU, MeCCNU), CAS 13909-09-6, is an investigational nitrosourea alkylating agent, the 4-methyl derivative of lomustine; never marketed, nephrotoxic, and an IARC group 1 human carcinogen.
Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin
Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin (1901–1933) was a Soviet mathematician known for the Gershgorin circle theorem of 1931, which locates all eigenvalues of a matrix in easily computed disks.
Semyon Belits Geyman
Semyon Belits-Geyman (Семён Викторович Белиц-Гейман), Soviet freestyle swimmer born 1945 in Moscow; 1968 Olympic relay silver and bronze, 1966 European 1500 m champion, and 800 m freestyle world record holder at 8:47.4.
Semyon Budyonny (Семён Михайлович Будённый)
Semyon Mikhaylovich Budyonny (Семён Михайлович Будённый), 1883–1973, Marshal of the Soviet Union and commander of the First Cavalry Army in the Russian Civil War; later a senior but largely unsuccessful World War II commander.
Semyon Desnitsky
Semyon Desnitsky (Семён Ефимович Десницкий) was a Russian jurist of the Catherine II era, the first Russian professor of law at Moscow University, trained under Adam Smith at Glasgow.
Semyon Dezhnev
Semyon Dezhnev (Семён Иванович Дежнёв) was a Russian Cossack ataman and fur trader who sailed through the Bering Strait in 1648, 80 years before Vitus Bering.
Semyon Nadson
Semyon Nadson (Семён Надсон) was a Russian poet whose melancholic civic verse made him the most popular lyric poet of the 1880s; he died of tuberculosis at 24.
Semyon Rzhishchin
Semyon Rzhishchin (Семён Иванович Ржищин), Soviet 3000 m steeplechase runner, set world records of 8:39.8 (1956) and 8:35.6 (1958), won bronze at the 1960 Rome Olympics and silver at the 1958 Europeans.
Semyon Skrepetsky
Semyon Skrepetsky (Семён Скрепецкий), pseudonym of Robert Kuzovkov (1981-2026), Russian neo-primitivist caricaturist, musician, and blogger exiled in Poland since 2021, known for satirical portraits of Putin and Kadyrov, shot dead in Biała Podlaska in June 2026.
Semyon Stroganov
Semyon Stroganov (Семён Аникеевич Строганов) was a Russian salt merchant and landowner of the Stroganov family who managed the Solvychegodsk estates and helped organize Ermak's 1581 conquest of Siberia.
Semyon Timoshenko (Семён Константинович Тимошенко)
Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (Семён Константинович Тимошенко, 1895-1970) was a Soviet Marshal (1940), twice Hero of the Soviet Union, People's Commissar of Defense 1940-41, Winter War commander who broke the Mannerheim Line, and wartime front commander and Stavka coordinator.