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🌶️ A spice 🌱 A herb plant
cumin

cumin

2.5
A small plant grown for its seeds used as a spice
  • 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.

Examples

  • The recipe calls for cumin seeds, which give the dish a rich, earthy taste.

  • What's cumin seed?

    Before and After (1996)

  • 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.

    Harvard University

  • 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.

  • In Middle Eastern dishes, the aromatic seeds of cumin are often sprinkled to add depth to the flavor.

Synonyms

Cuminum cyminum
vscumin
  • Specialized
7.4

A small annual plant grown for its spicy seeds called cumin

is the common everyday name used in cooking and markets

Compounds

cumin seed
1 2.4

A small brown seed that adds a warm, slightly bitter taste to food

Surface Forms

cumin singular
cumins plural

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'.