Did you perchance mean turmeric?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. common misspelling of turmeric.
Etymologies
- Perhaps from non-rhotic pronunciations of turmeric. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But if you are taking a spice called tumeric -- tumeric -- you can get it at the grocery store for a buck -- it protects you against radiation damage.”
“One 12-month-old boy in the case study was found to have lead poisoning after regularly eating spices such as tumeric, black mustard seed and asafetida.”
“The molecule in tumeric responsible for this effect is curcumin.”
The Huffington Post: Carolyn Anderson: East Indian Cuisine Could Save Your Life
“The first trial concerns the blood cancer multiple myeloma, the second involves one of the most aggressive and deadliest cancers, the one my mom had, pancreatic cancer, and the third investigates the possibility of preventing lung cancer in high risk subjects with the active ingredient in tumeric curcumin.”
The Huffington Post: Carolyn Anderson: East Indian Cuisine Could Save Your Life
“So it seems that tumeric is a powerful anti-inflammatory that helps stimulate the death of cancer cells and also inhibits the growth of blood vessels to supply a cancerous tumor.”
The Huffington Post: Carolyn Anderson: East Indian Cuisine Could Save Your Life
“Because of such compelling evidence that tumeric has some incredible cancer-fighting properties, his colleagues were convinced and many clinical trials have since been launched.”
The Huffington Post: Carolyn Anderson: East Indian Cuisine Could Save Your Life
“Mexican tumeric - I understand it is both tasty and healthy.”
“The tumeric (cúrcuma in Spanish) lends dishes the yellow color with only a little used so the flavor doesn't come through.”
“In a large bowl combine the rice flour, coconut milk, tumeric and green onions, mix well and set aside.”
“Here's an idea: Learn to cook by principals and good practices and you'll be able to whip up a beautiful healthy gourmet dish from nothing more than marshmellows, salt, vinegar and tumeric!”
SuperCook Turns Your Kitchen Contents Into Yummy Recipes | Lifehacker Australia
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tumeric’.
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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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Sanskritist
Ancient Vedic language of India, Yoga, Buddhism and Hinduism
turmeric, soma, shruti, shanti, hrdaya, samsara, mukta, jnana, namaste, atman, tara, citta and 92 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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-ic ending
Words ending in ic, tic or nic.
clastic, elastic, caustic, spastic, frantic, lactic, moronic, ironic, panic, doric, diplomatic, bureaucratic and 202 more...
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Eric List
This list includes words with 'eric' in them.
hysterical, esoteric, generic, american, cleric, tumeric, america, maverick
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
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exotic spices
unusual spices and kewl sounding spices...
asafoetida, wasabi, tumeric, basilico, cardamom, chervile, fenugreek, imli
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heather's Words
kleptocracy, aberrant, tawdry, insipid, noggin, obfuscate, dream, esoteric, hijinks, mischevious, nefarious, rapscallion and 184 more...
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the herbalist
Started off as herbs and spices, now to herbalry and nature-based drugs of all sorts. Plus beautiful flower names!
frankincense, myrrh, basil, thyme, rosemary, paprika, cardamom, tumeric, caraway, juniper, senna, anise and 57 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir This is how my mother says it. Jan 25, 2013
bilby Visuals! Jan 24, 2013
srkrause so it seems, a variant...
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary
Main Entry: tur·mer·ic
Pronunciation: 't&r-m&-rik
Variant: also tu·mer·ic /'t(y)ü-m&-/
Mar 5, 2008
sionnach Is this an incorrect spelling of turmeric, or an accepted spelling variant? Mar 5, 2008
srkrause sounds like a word 4th grade boys with 99%ile vocabularies would giggle at. Mar 5, 2008
artoparts Spice from India incorrectly identified as curry, often used as a natural remedy, dye, and to give mustard that rich golden color. Apr 9, 2007