sesamum

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. sesame archaic,uncountable
    — While at play for this extraordinary stake, they have a fire by them, on which a small pot of walnut oil, or oil of sesamum, is kept boiling; and when one has won a game, he chops off the end of the loser's finger, who immediately dips the stump into the boiling oil, to stem the blood; and some will persist so obstinately, as to have all their fingers thus mutilated.

词源

Unadapted borrowing from Latin sēsamum. Doublet of sesame.
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