galanga

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Stuff I've never even heard of like fenugreek, galanga, turmeric and caraway seeds.

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  • Stuff I've never even heard of like fenugreek, galanga, turmeric and caraway seeds. —  Creativadoration
  • I had a lovely chicken, coconut and greater galanga (comes from the ginger family) soup ..... —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Other writers speak of black spice, galanga, aqua vitæ, —  The Social History of Smoking
  • I've actually gotten to try some dishes from the new menu which were prepared for me off-the-menu at galanga. —  Eater National
  • Inwardly to expel wind, are simples or compounds: simples are herbs, roots, &c.;, as galanga, gentian, angelica, enula, calamus aromaticus, valerian, zeodoti, iris, condite ginger, aristolochy, cicliminus, China, dittander, pennyroyal, rue, calamint, bay-berries, and bay-leaves, betony, rosemary, hyssop, sabine, centaury, mint, camomile, staechas, agnus castus, broom-flowers, origan, orange-pills, &c.; spices, as saffron, cinnamon, bezoar stone, myrrh, mace, nutmegs, pepper, cloves, ginger, seeds of annis, fennel, amni, cari, nettle, rue, &c.;, juniper berries, grana paradisi; compounds, dianisum, diagalanga, diaciminum, diacalaminth, electuarium de baccis lauri, benedicta laxativa, pulvis ad status. —  The Anatomy of Melancholy
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  1. Middle Latin and New Latin: see galangal.
 

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