Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See coriander.
Wiktionary
- n. US the leaves of the coriander plant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. an Old World herb (Coriandrum sativum) with aromatic parsleylike leaves and seed.
- n. a parsleylike herb used as seasoning or garnish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish
- n. Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley
Etymologies
- From Spanish cilantro, from Latin coriandrum ("coriander"). (Wiktionary)
- Spanish, alteration of Late Latin coliandrum, from Latin coriandrum; see coriander. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Feb 9th, 2010 at 12: 52 pm monstermooch: cilantro is awesome. the more the better.”
“The normal cilantro is shooting up to flower, but ‘Delfino’ is still beautifully moundy.”
Incredible Edible of the Week: cilantro ‘Delfino’ « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
“Since we are having so much fun with this; in my old San Francisco neighborhood adjacent to Chinatown, cilantro is known as chinese parsley.”
“If you smoke something and serve it to me with hot sauce and coriander (I'm a Brit, cilantro is coriander leaf ...)”
“I mash avocados with salt, then stir in cilantro, jalapeno, lime juice and CUMIN (my not so secret ingredient).”
“We wage small wars in restaurants with wait staff who assume our requests to hold the cilantro is a preference, not a necessity.”
The Wall Street Journal: Cilantro and the Physiology of Taste
“Coriander, by the way, is also known as cilantro or Chinese parsley, so if you can't find "coriander" in your market, look for it by its other names.”
“Winter annual herbs of dill, coriander (also known as cilantro) and chervile are best started from seed in late summer.”
“Coriander leaf or seed - Fresh coriander leaves, also known as cilantro, bear a strong resemblance to Italian flat-leaf parsley, but with a stronger, distinct scent.”
“One farmer has already agreed to plant cilantro, which is popular in the South Bronx.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cilantro’.
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Americanism
American words
finest, fast food, acclimate, aluminum, alphabetize, airplane, affirmative action, arugula, backhoe, bangs, base board, bayou and 162 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Herbs: How Fragrant, How Delicious
Delicious scents in an edible nibble.
zedoary, zahtar, yarrow, wormwood, wasabi, verbena, valerian, thyme, Thai basil, tarragon, sweet basil, sorrel and 59 more...
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Spanish Dancers
Words have existed before there were borders. Portuguese, Cubanos, Gypsies and other folk.
culebra, chupacabra, vamos, caramba, oye mi vida, zocalo, bandito, cilantro, bossa nova, csárdás, conga, no le hace and 1 more...
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anais
basket, bag, lettuce, cilantro, lemon, soda, coke, whimsy, water, avocado, hat
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
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Groceries
strawberries, baby spinach, black beans, cinnamon, oranges, apples, fstg multigrain t..., olive oil, simply orange juice, tomato sauce, wholly guacamole, salt sense and 115 more...
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parody's Words
defenestrate, behemoth, floss, macchiato, glom, emu, alpaca, crocheted, ampersand, charade, conflate, salacious and 193 more...
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vocabulary
verisimilitude, pendulate, moxie, whimper, nary, stevedore, hubris, prodigious, super-injunction, injunction, lashings, fennel and 202 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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spoon
being items relating to food, cooking and the kitchen.
spoon, fork, beef, slice, dozen, eggs, simmer, broil, salad, soup, stock, lard and 287 more...
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the gardener and apothecary's
bryony, chamomile, frond, sweet bay, laurel, monkshood, henbane, hemlock, parsley, rosemary, thyme, lady's mantle and 140 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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food
food, chef, spice, salt, sugar, pumpkin, apples, fruit, vegetable, savory, soup, sauce and 280 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cilantro.
hernesheir "...confident with undertones of playfulness and cilantro..." -- hilarious. This phrase should be the name of a list. Aug 5, 2010
frogapplause The funniest (and most unexpected) use of the word cilantro I've seen so far.
cilantro. Aug 5, 2010
hernesheir cilantrophobe. Apr 20, 2010
dontcry Totally soap. Apr 20, 2010
polymorph Cilantro was left in the Pharoah's tombs to prevent indigestion in the afterlife.
There's also a humorous discussion about cilantro over at veganporn.com.
People have enough hatred of cilantro that a domain was spawned to fight it: ihatecilantro.com Apr 9, 2007