seme

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
seme /siːm/

▶noun Linguistics another term for semanteme.

– origin C19: from Gk sēma ‘sign’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
semé /ˈsɛmi, ˈsɛmeɪ/ (also semée)

▶adjective Heraldry covered with small bearings of indefinite number (e.g. stars) arranged all over the field.

– origin ME: Fr., lit. ‘sown’, past part. of semer.