Word Meanings - BENNE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum), originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.

• Statesmanship
  The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.
• Uniter
  One who, or that which, unites.
• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• Callose
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• Expressible
  Capable of being expressed, squeezed out, shown, represented, or uttered.
• Make-believe
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
• Planting
  of Plant
• Plantocracy
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• Stateswomen
  of Stateswoman
• Uniterable
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• MAKEBELIEVE
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• Expression
  The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.
• Plantable
  Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.
• Plantule
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• Stateswoman
  A woman concerned in public affairs.
• Asiatic
  Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants.

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