caraway
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Definition of caraway
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)A biennial plant of species Carum carvi, native to Europe and Asia, mainly grown for its seed to be used as a culinary spice. (The convention of putting caraway seeds into rye bread sometimes causes confusion about so-called rye seeds.)
“Caraway has a reputed aphrodisiac virtue. It is frequently mentioned in Oriental love manuals.”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)A biennial plant of species Carum carvi, native to Europe and Asia, mainly grown for its seed to be used as a culinary spice. (The convention of putting caraway seeds into rye bread sometimes causes confusion about so-called rye seeds.)
“Caraway has a reputed aphrodisiac virtue. It is frequently mentioned in Oriental love manuals.”
- (countable, uncountable)The seed-like fruit of the caraway plant.
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(countable, uncountable)A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds.
“I'll eat her marchpane and her caraways”
“the housewife of today can surely match the skill of those of three centuries ago and make "caraways” or cheesecakes”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English caraway, carewey, carwey, from Medieval Latin carui, from Arabic كَرَاوِيَا (karāwiyā), via Aramaic from Ancient Greek καρώ (karṓ), κάρον (káron, “caraway”).
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