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Cardamom   Listen
noun
Cardamom  n.  
1.
The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine. (Also spelled cardamum)
Synonyms: cardamon.
2.
(Bot.) A rhizomatous herb which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several species of Amomum.





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"Cardamom" Quotes from Famous Books



... article of cultivation, in these mountainous parts, is a large species of cardamom, of which I have as yet seen no description. The fruit is larger than that of the Cardamomum minus of Rumph, and has membraneous angles; but, in other respects, the two plants have a strong resemblance. In ...
— An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal • Fancis Buchanan Hamilton
... Lign-aloes.). Earth honoured. East, its state, circa, 1260. Ebony (bonus). Edkins, Rev. Edward I. Edward II., correspondence with Tartar princes. Effeminacy, in Chinese palaces. Eggs of Ruc and Aepyornis. Egrigaia, province. Ela (cardamom). Elchidai. Elenovka. Elephantiasis. Elephants, Kublai carried on a timber bartizan by four, Kublai's; the king of Mien's; numbers of men alleged to be carried by; how the Tartars routed; wild in Caugigu; Champa; Locac; Sumatra; Madagascar and Zanghibar; trade in teeth of; carried off by the Ruc; ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... is not good. One takes it in little swallows[45] for fear of burning one's self—in such fashion that in a cavekane (so they call the places where it is sold ready prepared), one hears a pleasant little musical sucking sound.... There are some who mix with it a small quantity of cloves and cardamom ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... on poles placed about twelve or eighteen inches apart—one planter has a line of plants about three miles in length. Like the cardamom, it yields fruit after three years, and then continues producing its pods ...
— Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 • Various


Words linked to "Cardamom" :   genus Elettaria, seasoner, cardamon, cardamum, flavoring, Elettaria, Elettaria cardamomum, herb, flavorer, flavouring


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