Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cuttlebone; sepiost or sepiostaire.
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- adjective A
specific epithet for several hedgerow plants
Etymologies
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Examples
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Today, the most common vegetation is represented by Crescentia cujete, Guazuma ulmifolia, Cassia fistula, Bursera graveolens, Spondias mombin, Bauhinia picta, Ceiba pentandra and Gliricidia sepium.
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In the sepia, the teuthis, and the teuthus the hard parts are within, towards the back of the body; those parts are called in one the sepium, and in the other the ‘sword’.
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They differ from one another, for the sepium in the cuttle-fish and teuthus is hard and flat, being a substance intermediate between bone and fishbone, with (in part) a crumbling, spongy texture, but in the teuthis the part is thin and somewhat gristly.
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Mike Benge with USAID sent us a 1966 technical report by Harry Hockman titled "Mechanism of Rodenticidal Activity of Gliricidia sepium."
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(See below for information about using Gliricidia sepium as a similar rodenticide.)
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Maize yields in Flemingia macrophylla (F.m.) alleys compared to control plots and alleys of Gliricidia sepium (G.s.) and Cassia siamea (C.s.) in a trial at IITA, Nigeria, are compared in the following table (Yamoah et al. 1986b):
Chapter 8 1996
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Rat control with poisonous seeds of fence trees (Gliricidia sepium).
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Commonly used, dual purpose shade/fodder species include Albizia chinensis, A. odoratissima, A. procera, Gliricidia sepium, Erythrina poeptugiana, E. subumbrans and E. variegate.
Chapter 6 1996
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These include Erythrina berteroana, Erythrina costancensis, Erythrina fusca, and Gliricidia sepium.
Chapter 6 1996
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Leucaena leucocephala, Gliricidia sepium, Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust) and Prosopis juliflora (mesquite).
mollusque commented on the word sepium
A cuttlebone.
December 4, 2007
bilby commented on the word sepium
Oh how do I love to go out and hurl some epithets at hedgerow plants.
September 8, 2022