🌱 A spice plant 🥣 A cooking herb

caraway

6.8

Leaves of a plant used in small amounts to give soups and stews a light spicy taste

noun
/ˈkɛrəˌweɪ/

: hojas de comino

She sprinkled caraway leaves over the stew before serving it.

Examples

I thought it was to check how clean it was until her chubby fingers emerged with a crust of potato-caraway bread.

Fiction book (1993)
I told you to sprinkle caraway.

Fiction book (1990)
Julian mutely lifted his tray with the sauerkraut and potato-caraway bread.

Fiction book (1993)
I added a pinch of caraway to the soup for extra flavor.
To enhance the dish, you should use a bit of caraway as a seasoning.

Compounds

caraway seed

1 3.4

A small brown seed used to give a warm, slightly spicy flavor to bread and food

black caraway

7.5

Small dark seeds from a Mediterranean plant that people use as a spice like caraway

caraway seed bread

4.1

Bread made with caraway seeds that give it a warm, strong flavor

whorled caraway

9.9

A caraway plant with leaves that grow in rings around the stem

Surface Forms

caraway singular

caraways plural

Etymology

Caraway comes from the Arabic word karawiyah meaning 'caraway', a name that travelled with the spice trade. That's why caraway can also mean the plant's leaves, used sparingly as a small, flavorful herb in soups and stews.