cilantro

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Your garden needs to be growing parsley, cilantro, and various peppers.

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  1. noun See coriander.

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  • On one night when Tom was returning late, she ordered a pizza for the boys and prepared shrimp with wild rice, cilantro, artichokes, and sour cream, with just a hint of cayenne pepper and lemon. —  FSF, August 2006
  • Whisk in the scallion and cilantro, and adjust the seasoning if necessary (I find that it's plenty salty enough, but maybe that's just me). —  Damn Hell Ass Kings
  • Such whims may include Southwestern strokes-cilantro, lime, jalapeño-or a specific "market-fresh catch" of the day. —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • Some of the components are the same as the raw beet salad-walnuts, cilantro, a mustard-based vinaigrette —  Tea & Cookies
  • Months earlier Shauna made a goat cheese spread with tomato vinegar, cilantro, and capers, and had spread it on slices of beet, a vegetable she also once hated. —  Tea & Cookies
 

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  1. Spanish, alteration of Late Latin coliandrum, from Latin coriandrum; see coriander.
 

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