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means The small oily seed of the sesame plant, used whole or ground into paste (tahini) or pressed into oil, prized for its nutty crunch and rich flavor.

from From Greek 'sesamon', itself borrowed from a Semitic source (compare Phoenician and Akkadian words for the plant, 'shamashshammu' or similar), which traveled further back to ancient roots in the Near East and possibly beyond, since sesame was cultivated and traded across Asia and Africa for millennia. The word kept its shape remarkably well as it crossed languages, a linguistic fossil riding along with the seed itself through ancient trade routes — long before 'open sesame' gave it a second life in folklore, the phrase possibly inspired by the way ripe sesame pods pop open on their own.