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From the Latin, sesquipedalis, meaning a foot-and-a-half, it means given to using long words.
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From the Latin, sesquipedalis, meaning a foot-and-a-half, it means given to using long words.
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Sesquipedalian: The big word for 'big words' comes from Latin sesquipedalis, "a foot and a half long, hence inordinately long,"
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Vigna sesquipedalis yardlong bean highly drought-resistant
Chapter 6 1993
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Vegetables like cabbages (Brassica oleracea var. capitata), eggplants, tomatoes, pole sitao (Vigna sesquipedalis) or winged bean can be stored in clay jars for a week.
Chapter 8 1993
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Pinna prima - ria, quam solummodo Tidiy sesquipedalis; se - cundaria bipoUicaris et longior.
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Frons sesquipedalis utrin - que pifis diaphanis obsita, bipinnnata vel po - tius hipinnatifida.
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Stipes semitereti-triqueter t pilis sparsis ar~ ticulatis paleaceis obsitus, Frons sesquipedalis pinnata.
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Stipes atro-fuscus nitidus glaber teres quinquepoUicaris, Frons sesquipedalis bipitina - ta vel triplicato-pinnata.
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