caraway

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FOR FLATULENCY Make a tea of the seeds of anise, caraway, and coriander, and drink freely of it 496.

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  1. noun A biennial Eurasian herb (Carum carvi) in the parsley family, having finely divided leaves and clusters of small, white or pinkish flowers.
  2. noun The seedlike fruit of this plant, widely used as a flavoring and seasoning in various foods. Also called caraway seed.

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  • He bit into the crust, enjoying its rough oat texture and caraway-seed taste with a hint of pizza crust. —  Serpents's Silver
  • Lemon chicken, cooking in the oven, the ammonia after taste of loud voices, a chili scent of tempers held just short of breaking, and a faint caraway-seed taste of hope. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 05 - May 1996
  • A stewed chef sat pie-eyed as the crusty judge took his caraway, a punish mint a long thyme cumin. —  Augusta Free Press
  • Restaurants with a pot for caraway - much like a pot for salt and pepper - are often regarded as signifier of its quality. —  Best Syndication -
  • Anise, fennel, and caraway-seeds, given in soup, act sometimes as stimulants upon the secretion of milk. —  The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother
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  1. Middle English carewei, from Old French carvi, caroi, probably from Medieval Latin carvi, carwi, ultimately from Arabic karawyā, from Greek karō.

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  1. Also written carraway, early modern English also caroway, from Spanish alcarahueya, caraway, from Arabic al, the, + karwīyā, kara-wīyā, caraway-seeds, caraway-plant, prob. from Greek κάρον, caraway, later L. careum, New Latin carum (later Italian caro— Florio), cumin, caraway. Another form is English dial and Scots carvy, carvey, from French carvi = Italian carvi = Dutch karwei = Middle Low German karwe, German karve, karbe, karwei = Danish karve, from Spanish carvi, short for alcaravea = Portuguese alcaravia, variants of the forms before mentioned, or directly from the Arabic without the article.
 

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/ˈkærəwei/
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