Meaning

5 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)A Middle Eastern spice plant related to buttercups, Nigella sativa, with dark black, aromatic seeds.

    Echter Schwarzkümmel, Ägyptischer Schwarzkümmel, Schwarzkümmel

    черну́шкаčernúška, черну́хаčernúxa, калинджиkalindži

    чорну́шка посівна́čornúška posivná, чо́рний кминčórnyj kmyn, чорну́шкаčornúška

  2. A Middle Eastern spice plant related to buttercups, Nigella sativa, with dark black, aromatic seeds.

    (uncountable, usually)These seeds as spice.

  3. (India, uncountable, usually)A spice plant related to caraway and cumin, with dark seeds and an edible root, Bunium bulbocastanum.

  4. (uncountable, usually)A spice plant related to cumin, Elwendia persica.

  5. A spice plant related to cumin, Elwendia persica.

    (uncountable, usually)Its fruits, dried and used as a spice.

More definitions
  • herb of the Mediterranean region having pungent seeds used like those of caraway

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
Nigella sativa — see also nigella:
spice from Nigella sativa:
Русский
By meaning 1
spice from Nigella sativa:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
Nigella sativa — see also nigella:
spice from Nigella sativa:

Forms

plural: black caraways
Singularblack caraway

uncountable

Synonyms

12 synonyms
plant Nigella sativa:nigellafennelflower
seeds of Nigella sativa:onion seedblackseedkalonji
Close in meaning

See also

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black caraway — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto