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noun

Cardamom n.

The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine. (Also spelled cardamum)

Synonyms: cardamon.

(Bot.) A rhizomatous herb which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several species of Amomum.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cardamom" Quotes from Famous Books

... an hour by the clock. Her voice was high and thin, and kept Mr. Montfort awake; she was apt to emphasise the wrong words, which made Margaret's soul cry out within her; and she stopped every few minutes to chew a cardamom seed with great deliberation. This simple action had the effect of making both her hearers extremely nervous, they could not have explained why. Also, she was afflicted with a sniff, which recurred at regular intervals, generally in the middle of a sentence. Altogether the reading was a chastened ...

— Margaret Montfort • Laura E. Richards

Words linked to "Cardamom" : herb, flavorer, flavouring, cardamum, flavoring, seasoner, genus Elettaria, Elettaria, flavourer