turmeric

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Yellow mustard seeds, turmeric, and paprika.

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  1. noun A widely cultivated tropical plant (Curcuma domestica) of India, having yellow flowers and an aromatic, somewhat fleshy rhizome.
  2. noun The powdered rhizome of this plant, used as a condiment and a yellow dye.
  3. noun Any of several other plants having similar rhizomes.

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  • Yellow mustard seeds, turmeric, and paprika. —  Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
  • Natural products like the turmeric, sandalwood, tulsi, neem had always been the source of beauty care in ancient India. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Use it in baked potatoes with herbs such as turmeric, cayenne and cumin. —  NaturalNews.com
  • 'Even if the gulal is consumed orally by mistake, it will cause no harm since the ingredients are only tulsi, turmeric, arrowroot powder and natural fragrances,' said a Organic India spokesperson. —  India eNews
  • Chicken Tikka tends to go on turmeric, and those two pairs of almost "standard" ingredients: garlic & ginger, and cumin & coriander seeds. —  Recipe Exchange
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  1. Alteration of Middle English termeryte, from Old French terre-merite, saffron, from Medieval Latin terra merita : Latin terra, earth; see ters- in Indo-European roots + Latin merita, feminine past participle of merēre, to deserve; see (s)mer-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also turmerick (New Latin turmerica, Minsheu); cf. French terre-mérite (New Latin terra merita), turmeric (as if from Latin terra, earth, + merita, deserved, deserving, taken in the forced sense of ‘excellent’); both prob. corruptions of an Oriental name, perhaps of Arabic kurkum, saffron: see curcuma.
 

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