different between cardamom vs terpinene

English

Alternative forms

• cardamon

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Old French cardamome or Latin cardam?mum, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (kardám?mon).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.d?.m?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??.d?.m?m/, /?k??.d??m?m/

Noun

cardamom (countable and uncountable, plural cardamoms)

1. The Elettaria cardamomum, an Indian herb.
2. The seed of E. cardamomum, used as a medicine and spice, especially in curry powder.
3. (uncommon, inexact) Synonym of grains of paradise, the seeds or seed capsules of the East African Aframomum melegueta.

Synonyms

• (spice): elaichi, queen of spices

Derived terms

• Cardamom Mountains

Translations

References

• “cardamom, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1888
• Weeks, Hittite Vocabulary: An Anatolian Appendix to Buck‘sDictionary of SelectedSynonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cardam?mum, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (kardám?mon).

Noun

cardamom m (plural cardamoms)

1. cardamom

Further reading

• “cardamom” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Romanian

Etymology

From French cardamome.

Noun

cardamom n (uncountable)

1. cardamom

Declension

English

Noun

terpinene (plural terpinenes)

1. (organic chemistry) Any of several isomeric monoterpene hydrocarbons found in the essential oil of cardamom, marjoram and other herbs

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