Cumin, the Glossary
Cumin (Cuminum cyminum) is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the Irano-Turanian Region.[1]
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- Edible Apiaceae
A Way with Words
A Way with Words is an American weekly public radio program discussing the use of language (mainly American and Canadian English, with other languages earning more occasional mention) in everyday life, along with linguistics, lexicology and folk etymology from a pool of listener questions from weekly callers into the program, along with a weekly word game with quiz expert and comedian John Chaneski.
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Achene
An achene, also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp, is a type of simple dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants.
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Adobo
Adobo or adobar (Spanish: marinade, sauce, or seasoning) is the immersion of food in a stock (or sauce) composed variously of paprika, oregano, salt, garlic, and vinegar to preserve and enhance its flavor. Cumin and adobo are spices.
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Akkadian language
Akkadian (translit)John Huehnergard & Christopher Woods, "Akkadian and Eblaite", The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.
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Alternaria
Alternaria is a genus of Deuteromycetes fungi.
Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Annual plant
An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies.
Apiaceae
Apiaceae or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus Apium, and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers.
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
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Aroma compound
An aroma compound, also known as an odorant, aroma, fragrance or flavoring, is a chemical compound that has a smell or odor.
Atlit Yam
Atlit Yam is a submerged ancient Neolithic village off the coast of Atlit, Israel.
B vitamins
B vitamins are a class of water-soluble vitamins that play important roles in cell metabolism and synthesis of red blood cells.
Baharat
(بَهَارَات; 'spices') is a spice mixture or blend used in Middle Eastern cuisines.
Bird food
Bird food or bird seed is food intended for consumption by wild, commercial, or pet birds.
Bixa orellana
Bixa orellana, also known as achiote, is a shrub or small tree native to Central America.
Bunium bulbocastanum
Bunium bulbocastanum is a plant species in the family Apiaceae. Cumin and Bunium bulbocastanum are Edible Apiaceae and spices.
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Caraway
Caraway, also known as meridian fennel and Persian cumin (Carum carvi), is a biennial plant in the family Apiaceae, native to western Asia, Europe, and North Africa. Cumin and Caraway are Edible Apiaceae, Medicinal plants of Asia and spices.
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
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Chili powder
Chili powder (also spelled chile, chilli, or, alternatively, powdered chili) is the dried, pulverized fruit of one or more varieties of chili pepper, sometimes with the addition of other spices (in which case it is also sometimes known as chili powder blend or chili seasoning mix). Cumin and chili powder are spices.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Chromosome
A chromosome is a package of DNA with part or all of the genetic material of an organism.
Coriander
Coriander (Coriandrum sativum), also known as cilantro, is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae. Cumin and Coriander are Edible Apiaceae and spices.
Cosmetics
Cosmetics are composed of mixtures of chemical compounds derived from either natural sources or synthetically created ones.
Cotyledon
A cotyledon ("a cavity, small cup, any cup-shaped hollow", gen.) is a "seed leaf" - a significant part of the embryo within the seed of a plant, and is formally defined as "the embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, one or more of which are the first to appear from a germinating seed." Botanists use the number of cotyledons present as one characteristic to classify the flowering plants (angiosperms): species with one cotyledon are called monocotyledonous ("monocots"); plants with two embryonic leaves are termed dicotyledonous ("dicots").
Crete
Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
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Cuisine
A cuisine is a style of cooking characterized by distinctive ingredients, techniques and dishes, and usually associated with a specific culture or geographic region.
Cumans
The Cumans or Kumans (kumani; Kumanen;; Połowcy; cumani; polovtsy; polovtsi) were a Turkic nomadic people from Central Asia comprising the western branch of the Cuman–Kipchak confederation who spoke the Cuman language.
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Cuminaldehyde
Cuminaldehyde (4-isopropylbenzaldehyde) is a natural organic compound with the molecular formula C10H12O.
Curcumin
Curcumin is a bright yellow chemical produced by plants of the Curcuma longa species.
Curry powder
Curry powder is a spice mix originating from India, adapted from but not to be confused with the native spice mix of garam masala.
Dhana jiru
Dhana jiru is an Indian spice mix consisting primarily of ground, roasted cumin (jiru) and coriander (dhana) seeds.
Dietary fiber
Dietary fiber (fibre in Commonwealth English) or roughage is the portion of plant-derived food that cannot be completely broken down by human digestive enzymes.
Dill
Dill (Anethum graveolens) is an annual herb in the celery family Apiaceae. Cumin and Dill are Edible Apiaceae and spices.
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Eastern Mediterranean
Eastern Mediterranean is a loose definition of the eastern approximate half, or third, of the Mediterranean Sea, often defined as the countries around the Levantine Sea.
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Elwendia persica
Elwendia persica is a plant species in the family Apiaceae. Cumin and Elwendia persica are spices.
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Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) is an integrated compendium of twenty one encyclopedias.
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Essential oil
An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile (easily evaporated at normal temperatures) chemical compounds from plants.
Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Fat
In nutrition, biology, and chemistry, fat usually means any ester of fatty acids, or a mixture of such compounds, most commonly those that occur in living beings or in food.
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Flavoring
A flavoring (or flavouring), also known as flavor (or flavour) or flavorant, is a food additive used to improve the taste or smell of food.
Flower
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae).
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Flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.
Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).
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Fusarium
Fusarium is a large genus of filamentous fungi, part of a group often referred to as hyphomycetes, widely distributed in soil and associated with plants.
Garam masala
Garam masala (from Hindustani / garam masālā, "hot spices") is a blend of ground spices originating from South Asia. Cumin and garam masala are spices.
Ghee
Ghee is a type of clarified butter, originating from India.
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Glabrousness
Glabrousness (from the Latin glaber meaning "bald", "hairless", "shaved", "smooth") is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes or other such covering.
Glossary of leaf morphology
The following terms are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants.
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Grant Barrett
Grant Barrett (born 1970) is an American lexicographer, specializing in slang, jargon and new usage, and the author and compiler of language-related books and dictionaries.
Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
Heinrich Zimmern
Heinrich Zimmern (14 July 1862, in Graben – 17 February 1931, in Leipzig) was a German Assyriologist.
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Herbaceous plant
Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground.
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Herbicide
Herbicides, also commonly known as weed killers, are substances used to control undesired plants, also known as weeds.
Hyperforeignism
A hyperforeignism is a type of qualitative hypercorrection that involves speakers misidentifying the distribution of a pattern found in loanwords and extending it to other environments, including words and phrases not borrowed from the language that the pattern derives from.
Hypocotyl
The hypocotyl (short for "hypocotyledonous stem", meaning "below seed leaf") is the stem of a germinating seedling, found below the cotyledons (seed leaves) and above the radicle (root).
Ideogram
An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek 'idea' + 'to write') is a symbol that represents an idea or concept independent of any particular language.
In vitro
In vitro (meaning in glass, or in the glass) studies are performed with microorganisms, cells, or biological molecules outside their normal biological context.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
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Iranian cuisine
Iranian cuisine is the culinary traditions of Iran.
Irano-Turanian Region
The Irano-Turanian Region is a floristic region located within the Tethyan Subkingdom of the Holarctic Kingdom.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element.
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Β-Pinene
β-Pinene is a monoterpene, an organic compound found in plants.
Kozhikode
Kozhikode, also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India.
Leaf
A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.
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Leaf area index
Leaf area index (LAI) is a dimensionless quantity that characterizes plant canopies.
Leyden cheese
Leyden, from Leidse kaas, is a semi-hard, cumin and caraway seed flavoured cheese made in the Netherlands from cow's milk.
Linear A
Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 BC to 1450 BC.
Magnesium
Magnesium is a chemical element; it has symbol Mg and atomic number 12.
Manganese
Manganese is a chemical element; it has symbol Mn and atomic number 25.
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
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Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century.
Mill (grinding)
A mill is a device, often a structure, machine or kitchen appliance, that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting.
Mineral (nutrient)
In the context of nutrition, a mineral is a chemical element.
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Minoan civilization
The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.
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Minoan palaces
Minoan palaces were massive building complexes built on Crete during the Bronze Age.
Monounsaturated fat
In biochemistry and nutrition, a monounsaturated fat is a fat that contains a monounsaturated fatty acid (MUFA), a subclass of fatty acid characterized by having a double bond in the fatty acid chain with all of the remaining carbon atoms being single-bonded.
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Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Myzus persicae
Myzus persicae, known as the green peach aphid, greenfly, or the peach-potato aphid, is a small green aphid belonging to the order Hemiptera.
New Kingdom of Egypt
The New Kingdom, also referred to as the Egyptian Empire, was the ancient Egyptian state between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC.
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Nigella sativa
Nigella sativa (black caraway, also known as black cumin, nigella, kalonji, charnushka) is an annual flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to eastern Europe (Bulgaria and Romania) and western Asia (Cyprus, Turkey, Iran and Iraq), but naturalized over a much wider area, including parts of Europe, northern Africa and east to Myanmar. Cumin and nigella sativa are spices.
North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.
Old High German
Old High German (OHG; Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050.
Oval
An oval is a closed curve in a plane which resembles the outline of an egg.
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P-Cymene
p-Cymene is a naturally occurring aromatic organic compound.
Perfume
Perfume (parfum) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds (fragrances), fixatives and solvents, usually in liquid form, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent.
Pinnation
Pinnation (also called pennation) is the arrangement of feather-like or multi-divided features arising from both sides of a common axis.
Plant stem
A stem is one of two main structural axes of a vascular plant, the other being the root.
Ploidy
Ploidy is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes.
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Powdery mildew
Powdery mildew is a fungal disease that affects a wide range of plants.
Prescription drug
A prescription drug (also prescription medication, prescription medicine or prescription-only medication) is a pharmaceutical drug that is permitted to be dispensed only to those with a medical prescription.
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Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
Pyrazine
Pyrazine is a heterocyclic aromatic organic compound with the chemical formula C4H4N2.
Reference Daily Intake
In the U.S. and Canada, the Reference Daily Intake (RDI) is used in nutrition labeling on food and dietary supplement products to indicate the daily intake level of a nutrient that is considered to be sufficient to meet the requirements of 97–98% of healthy individuals in every demographic in the United States.
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Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
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Safranal
Safranal is an organic compound isolated from saffron, the spice consisting of the stigmas of crocus flowers (Crocus sativus).
Seed
In botany, a seed is a plant embryo and food reserve enclosed in a protective outer covering called a seed coat (testa).
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Semitic languages
The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.
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Slavic languages
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants.
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Sofrito
Sofrito (Spanish), sofregit (Catalan), soffritto (Italian), or refogado (Portuguese), is a basic preparation in Mediterranean, Latin American, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese cooking.
South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.
Spice
In the culinary arts, a spice is any seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance in a form primarily used for flavoring or coloring food. Cumin and spice are spices.
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Substitution reaction
A substitution reaction (also known as single displacement reaction or single substitution reaction) is a chemical reaction during which one functional group in a chemical compound is replaced by another functional group.
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Sulfuric acid
Sulfuric acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid (Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen, with the molecular formula.
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
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Terpenoid
The terpenoids, also known as isoprenoids, are a class of naturally occurring organic chemicals derived from the 5-carbon compound isoprene and its derivatives called terpenes, diterpenes, etc.
Terpinene
The terpinenes are a group of isomeric hydrocarbons that are classified as monoterpenes.
Tex-Mex
Tex-Mex cuisine (derived from the words Texas and Mexico) is a regional American cuisine that originates from the culinary creations of Tejano people (Texans of Mexican heritage).
Traditional medicine
Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within the folk beliefs of various societies, including indigenous peoples, before the era of modern medicine.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
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Umbel
In botany, an umbel is an inflorescence that consists of a number of short flower stalks (called pedicels) that spread from a common point, somewhat like umbrella ribs.
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United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
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Uralic languages
The Uralic languages, sometimes called the Uralian languages, form a language family of 42 languages spoken predominantly in Europe and North Asia.
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Vitamin E
Vitamin E is a group of eight fat soluble compounds that include four tocopherols and four tocotrienols.
West Asia
West Asia, also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost region of Asia.
Windbreak
A windbreak (shelterbelt) is a planting usually made up of one or more rows of trees or shrubs planted in such a manner as to provide shelter from the wind and to protect soil from erosion.
See also
Edible Apiaceae
- Aegopodium podagraria
- Ajwain
- Alepidea peduncularis
- Angelica archangelica
- Anise
- Anthriscus sylvestris
- Apium prostratum
- Arracacia xanthorrhiza
- Asafoetida
- Bunium bulbocastanum
- Caraway
- Carrot
- Celeriac
- Celery
- Centella asiatica
- Chaerophyllum bulbosum
- Chervil
- Cicely
- Coriander
- Crithmum
- Cryptotaenia
- Cumin
- Daucus pusillus
- Dill
- Echinophora sibthorpiana
- Erigenia
- Eryngium foetidum
- Fennel
- Heracleum persicum
- Leaf celery
- Ligusticum scoticum
- List of carrot dishes
- Lomatium
- Lomatium parryi
- Lovage
- Oenanthe javanica
- Osmorhiza
- Parsley
- Parsnip
- Perideridia
- Perideridia gairdneri
- Peucedanum ostruthium
- Peucedanum palustre
- Ridolfia
- Seseli libanotis
- Silphium
- Sison amomum
- Sium sisarum
- Smyrnium olusatrum
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumin
Also known as Cumimum cyminum, Cumin seed, Cumin seeds, Cuminum cyminum, Cummin, Cumminseed, GEERA, Geerah, Geerakam, Ground cumin, Health Benefits of Jeera Water, Jeera, Jeera water, Seeragam, Zeera.
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