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Webster 1913 Edition

Amomum

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A-mo′mum

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Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK] an Indian spice plant.]
(Bot.)
A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.

Webster 1828 Edition

Amomum

AMO'MUM

n. [Gr.]
A genus of plants; all natives of warm climates, and remarkable for their pungency and aromatic properties. it includes the common ginger or zingiber, the zerumbet, zedoary, cardamom, and granum paradisi or grains of paradise. The roots of the three former, and the seeds of the two latter, are used in medicine as carminatives and stimulants, and in cookery as condiments. They are important articles of commerce.
True amomum is a round fruit, from the East, of the size of a grape, containing, under a membranous cover, a number of angular seeds of a dark brown color, in three cells. Of this fruit, ten or twelve grow in a cluster, adhering without a pedicle, to a woody stalk. It is of a pungent taste and aromatic smell, and was formerly much used in medicine, but is not a stranger to the shops.

Definition 2024

Amomum

Amomum

See also: amomum

Translingual

Amomum dealbatum
Amomum subulatum (black cardamon)

Proper noun

Amomum n

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Zingiberaceae – black cardamon and similar plants.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

amomum

amomum

See also: Amomum

English

Noun

amomum ‎(plural amomums)

  1. Any of several spices of genus Amomum, family Zingiberaceae, including cardamom.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄμωμον ‎(ámōmon).

Noun

amōmum n ‎(genitive amōmī); second declension

  1. amomum
  2. balm containing this spice

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative amōmum amōma
genitive amōmī amōmōrum
dative amōmō amōmīs
accusative amōmum amōma
ablative amōmō amōmīs
vocative amōmum amōma

Derived terms

References

Etymology

From Latin amomum

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