different between caraway vs carvone

English

Etymology

From Middle English caraway, carewey, carwey, from Medieval Latin carui, from Arabic ??????????? (kar?wiy?), via Aramaic from Ancient Greek ???? (kar?), ????? (káron, “caraway”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæ???we?/

Noun

caraway (countable and uncountable, plural caraways)

1. A biennial plant, Carum carvi, native to Europe and Asia, mainly grown for its seed to be used as a culinary spice.
2. The seed-like fruit of the caraway plant.
3. A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds.
   • 1897, Imogen Clark, Will Shakespeare's Little Lad

     I'll eat her marchpane and her caraways

   • 1916, The Country Gentleman

     the housewife of today can surely match the skill of those of three centuries ago and make "caraways” or cheesecakes

Synonyms

• Persian cumin

Translations

Further reading

• caraway on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “caraway” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “caraway”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• carewey, careway, carwey, carway, carawey, careaway, carewy, carwy, careeaway, charuwe

Etymology

From Medieval Latin carui, from Arabic ???????????? (kar?wiyy?), via Aramaic from Ancient Greek ???? (kar?), ????? (káron, “caraway”). Doublet of carvi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?karwi?/, /?kar??wi?/, /-w?i?/

Noun

caraway (uncountable)

1. Caraway or its seed.

   Synonym: carvi

Descendants

• English: caraway

References

• “carewei, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-26.

English

Noun

carvone (countable and uncountable, plural carvones)

1. (organic chemistry) A terpenoid found naturally in many essential oils, most abundant in the oils from seeds of caraway and dill.

Derived terms

• eucarvone