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Sesame
Sesame (Sesamum indicum, syn. S. orientale), an annual Pedaliaceae oilseed domesticated in India, grown for seeds with 45–60% rancidity-resistant oil rich in sesamin lignans; Sudan leads production.
Sesame CSM
Sesame CSM (Conversational Speech Model) is a family of speech-native conversational speech models by Sesame, first released in March 2025 after its viral Maya voice demo.
Sesame oil
Sesame oil, pressed from Sesamum indicum seeds, one of the oldest oilseed oils; 45-60% seed oil content, stabilized by lignans sesamin and sesamolin, used in cooking, cosmetics, and traditional medicine.
Sesame Place Philadelphia
Sesame Place Philadelphia is a Sesame Street-themed children's theme and water park in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, opened in 1980 by Children's Television Workshop, now run by SeaWorld Parks; first Certified Autism Center theme park.
Sesame Street
Sesame Street is the American educational preschool TV series premiered in 1969 by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett's Children's Television Workshop, known for its Muppets, research-verified school-readiness curriculum, international co-productions, and 2025 Netflix-PBS distribution deal.
Sesame Street characters
Sesame Street characters are Muppet and human residents of the American children's series Sesame Street. They premiered in 1969 to teach lessons about letters and social skills.
Sesame Workshop
Sesame Workshop, founded as the Children's Television Workshop in 1968 (some references say 1967) by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett and renamed in June 2000, is the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, reaching children in 190 countries with research-based educational media.
Sesamoid bone
Sesamoid bone: a small bone embedded in a tendon or muscle near a joint, acting as a pulley; includes the patella and hallucal sesamoids; variable prevalence, prone to sesamoiditis and avascular necrosis.
Sesamol
Sesamol is a phenolic compound in sesame seeds and oil, the principal antioxidant of roasted sesame oil and an industrial intermediate for the antidepressant paroxetine.
Sesamum
Sesamum is a genus of about 31 Pedaliaceae herbs native from tropical Africa and Asia to Australia; its type species Sesamum indicum is sesame, the ancient oilseed crop with 45-60% seed oil.
Sesbania
Sesbania (sesbania, sesban) is a genus of about 50-80 legume species (Fabaceae, tribe Sesbanieae) of herbs, shrubs, and small trees in tropical wet habitats, used as green manure, fodder, and fuelwood; S. rostrata uniquely forms nitrogen-fixing stem nodules.
Sesbania grandiflora
Sesbania grandiflora, known as agati or vegetable hummingbird, is a fast-growing legume tree native to Malesia and New Guinea, cultivated across the tropics for food, forage, and medicine.
Sesc Pompeia
Sesc Pompeia is a cultural and leisure center in São Paulo's Pompéia district, Brazil, opened in 1982 in a former drum factory adapted by architect Lina Bo Bardi.
Sese Grande
Sese Grande, or Sese del Re, is the largest and only intact sesi, a Bronze Age megalithic burial mound at Mursia, Pantelleria: 5.58 m high, 20 m across, with twelve cells, corridors up to 7 m, and sarcophagi inside.
Sesebi
Sesebi, also known as Sesibi, is a walled New Kingdom Egyptian temple town on the west bank of the Nile in Sudanese Nubia, south of Soleb.
Seseli
Seseli L. is a genus of 141 accepted Apiaceae herbs native to temperate Eurasia, North Africa, and Somalia; non-monophyletic, rich in coumarins and essential oils, used in traditional medicine.
Seshat
Seshat (sšꜣt), ancient Egyptian goddess of writing, measurement, and architecture, female counterpart of Thoth; first attested in the 2nd Dynasty, partner of the king in the 'stretching the cord' temple-foundation ritual, with no temple of her own.
Seshathetep
Seshathetep, called Heti, was an Old Kingdom Egyptian royal official, probably of the Fifth Dynasty, whose inscribed tomb mastaba G 5150 at Giza may attest him as a vizier.
Seshemetka
Seshemetka was a royal woman of Egypt's First Dynasty, known from a single funerary stela found in King Den's funerary complex at Abydos, now in the Louvre.
Seshemnefer III
Seshemnefer III, also printed Seshemnofer III, was a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian official who held the titles king's son of his body, chief justice, and vizier, buried in mastaba G 5170 at Giza.
Seshemnefer IV
Seshemnefer IV, also written Seshemnofer IV, was a high official of the Egyptian Old Kingdom buried at Giza in mastaba Lepsius 53, in the Cemetery en Echelon.
Sesheshet
Sesheshet, also spelled Seshestet, was an Egyptian king's mother, mother of Teti, first king of the Sixth Dynasty, whose pyramid was found at Saqqara in 2008.
Seshseshet (daughter of Teti)
Seshseshet, also known as Watetkhethor, was an Egyptian royal princess of the Sixth Dynasty, eldest daughter of King Teti and wife of the vizier Mereruka.
Sesia Val Grande UNESCO Global Geopark
Sesia Val Grande UNESCO Global Geopark is a UNESCO-designated territory of about 2,200 km² in Piedmont, Italy, recognized in 2013 for its exposed section of the Earth's crust.
Sesiidae
Sesiidae, the clearwing moths, are a family of about 1,500 diurnal moth species that mimic wasps and bees; their larvae bore into plant stems and roots, making many species agricultural and forestry pests.
Sesmaria system
The sesmaria system (sesmarias) was a Portuguese land-grant law, rooted in the Lei de Sesmarias of 1375, under which the Crown granted land on condition it be cultivated.
Sesönk
Sesönk (Dikilitaş Tumulus) is a Commagene royal tomb near Besni, Adıyaman, Turkey: a rubble-stone mound over a rock-cut chamber with three niches, attributed to Mithridates II (buried 36-21 BC), ringed by Doric columns.
Sesquilinear form
A sesquilinear form is a function of two vector variables that is linear in one argument and conjugate-linear in the other, the natural complex replacement for bilinear forms.
Sesquiterpene
Sesquiterpenes are C15 terpenoids built from three isoprene units, occurring in plants, fungi, bacteria, and insects, with over 7,000 known carbon skeletons and many uses in perfumes and drugs.
Sesquiterpene cyclases
Sesquiterpene cyclases are terpene synthases that convert farnesyl diphosphate (FPP) into hundreds of cyclic and acyclic sesquiterpenes via carbocation intermediates, the most diverse terpene synthase subfamily.