cumin
- noun
- /ˈkʌmɪn/
:
comino
- I've got some Italian style herbs and some cumin seeds and then of course spaghetti itself.
- cumin seeds
We also found that people whose peers were assigned to the treatment group planted more cumin and reported lower loss of crop due to cotton pests.
- We also found that people whose peers were assigned to the treatment group planted more cumin and reported lower loss of crop due to cotton pests.
Examples
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The recipe calls for cumin seeds, which give the dish a rich, earthy taste.
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What's cumin seed?
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We also found that people whose peers were assigned to the treatment group planted more cumin and reported lower loss of crop due to cotton pests.
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Her signature appetizer, warmed marinated goat cheese on whole wheat cumin pita toasts, was passé.
Fiction book (1997) -
To enhance the flavor of the curry, she added a teaspoon of cumin to the pot before simmering.
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In Middle Eastern dishes, the aromatic seeds of cumin are often sprinkled to add depth to the flavor.
Synonyms
A small annual plant grown for its spicy seeds called cumin
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cumin gets its name from old Mediterranean words like kyminon and cuminum, and many languages kept a similar form like Spanish comino as the plant and its seeds were traded widely. So cumin can mean the small plant as well as its aromatic 'seeds' used as a 'spice'.