tarragon

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I got so sick, in fact, that Ouzo, licorice, anise, and tarragon are all very disgusting to me - until last Friday evening.

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  1. noun An aromatic Eurasian herb (Artemisia dracunculus) having linear to lance-shaped leaves and small, whitish-green flower heads arranged in loose, spreading panicles.
  2. noun The leaves of this plant used as a seasoning.

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  • Toss crabmeat with dressing, tarragon, and chives. —  Epicurious.com: New Recipes
  • Herbs: For herbs such as tarragon, rosemary or bay noble laurel, choose freshly-harvested specimens at the peak of their flavor. —  The Kitchn
  • I got so sick, in fact, that Ouzo, licorice, anise, and tarragon are all very disgusting to me - until last Friday evening. —  wacotrib - Latest News Headlines
  • Some boil and mince fine a few leaves of parsley or chevrel or tarragon, and add to the sauce; others, the juice of half a Seville orange or lemon VEGETABLES Grateful and salutary Spring! —  A Poetical Cook-Book
  • Five cents' worth of bay-leaves from the drug shop win complete the list (save tarragon, which is hard to find), and you have for a quarter of a dollar herbs enough to last a large family a year. —  Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
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  1. New Latin tarchon, from Medieval Greek tarkhōn, from Arabic ṭarḫūn, perhaps from Greek drakōn, dragon, tarragon; see derk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also taragon; from Old French *taragon, targon, tragon, tarcon, tarchon (dial. dragoun), also estragon (= Provencal estragão), also tragoncee = Spanish taragoncia, taragontia, from Arabic tarkhūn, tarkhūni, tarragon, from Greek δράκων, a serpent, dragon (later δρακόντιον, a plant of the arum kind): see dragon, 7, and cf. Dracontium, Dracunculus.
 

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