🧂 A cooking spice 🟡 A yellow color 🌸 A crocus plant 🎨 To color or flavor

to saffron

7.7

To give food a yellow color and special taste using the spice from crocus threads

verb
/ˈsæf.rən/

: azafranar

To create an authentic paella, you should saffron the broth to give it a rich flavor and vibrant color.

Examples

The chef decided to saffron the cream sauce, enhancing both its taste and appearance.
For a delightful aroma, remember to saffron your rice before serving.
Shoot, you saffron-bellied swine!

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Compounds

false saffron

9.1

A plant like a thistle with red or orange flowers whose seeds make an oil used instead of saffron

meadow saffron

9.5

A plant that has a bulb and makes purple or white flowers in autumn and is poisonous to eat

saffron crocus

7.5

A small plant with purple flowers whose red threads make the spice saffron

How Flavored

to saturate

55 5.2

to saffron

7.7

to flavor

73 1.9

Surface Forms

saffron infinitive

saffroned past

saffroned past participle

saffroning present participle

saffrons third person singular

Etymology

The verb saffron comes from the spice name and means to add saffron to food or drink, so to saffron a dish is to give it that golden 'color' and special taste.