See Also: Turmeric(medicine)
turmeric(dictionary)
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Turmeric(recipes)
Turmeric Potatoes(recipes)
Lamb Korma with Turmeric Rice(recipes)
Steamed Mussels in a Turmeric Cream Sauce(recipes)
Vietnamese-style monkfish with turmeric, rice noodles and herbs(recipes)
Sesame-crusted mackerel with sweet and sour beetroot sauce and turmeric rice(recipes)

turmeric (iou)



turmeric noun. Also (earlier) tarmaret & other vars. LME.
[App. from French terre merite, mod. Latin terra merita lit. 'deserving earth', perh. alt. of some oriental word: assim. to -IC.]
A pungent aromatic yellow powder used to flavour and colour curry powder and as the source of a yellow dye; the rhizome of a tropical Asian plant, Curcuma longa, of the ginger family, from which this is prepared. Also, the plant from which this is obtained.
Comb.: turmeric paper unsized paper tinged with a solution of turmeric, used as a test for alkalis.