cumin
/ˈkʌmɪn/(亦作cummin)
noun
mass noun
1
- the aromatic seeds of a plant of the parsley family, used as a spice, especially ground and used in curry powder莳萝子, 土茴香子。
2
- the small slender plant which bears this fruit, occurring from the Mediterranean to central Asia莳萝, 土茴香。
2.1
- Cuminum cyminum, family Umbelliferae.拉丁名Cuminum cyminum,伞形科。
词源
Old English cymen, from Latin cuminum, from Greek kuminon, probably of Semitic origin and related to Hebrew kammōn and Arabic kammūn; superseded in Middle English by forms from Old French cumon, comin, also from Latin.