CURCUMA


Meaning of CURCUMA in English

/kerr"kyoo meuh/ , n.

any of various chiefly Old World plants belonging to the genus Curcuma, of the ginger family, as C. domestica, yielding turmeric, or C. zedoaria, yielding zedoary.

[ 1610-20; kurkum saffron, turmeric; cf. CROCUS ]

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