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单词 caraway
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carawayn.

Brit. /ˈkarəweɪ/, U.S. /ˈkɛrəˌweɪ/
Forms: (Middle English–1600s carway), 1500s caruway(e, carowaye, caroweie, kerua, 1500s–1600s careway(e, carawey, 1600s carrowaye, 1600s–1800s carraway, Middle English– caraway.
Etymology: < medieval Latin carui, or some allied Romanic form: compare French carvi, Italian carvi, Spanish carvi (whence Scots carvy, kervie), Old Spanish alcaravea, alcarahueya, Portuguese alcaravia, alcorovia, < Arabic al-karawiyā or -karwiyā: compare Greek κάρον, κάρεον (in Latin carum, careum Pliny), forms however which could not immediately give the Arabic.
1. An umbelliferous plant ( Carum carui): its small fruits, commonly called ‘caraway-seeds’, are aromatic and carminative; they are used in cakes, sweetmeats, etc., and yield a volatile oil.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > caraway plant or seed
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 62 Caraway herbe, carway, sic scribitur in campo florum.
c1500 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe (1585) D j Suffumigacion of ye oyle of kerua.
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. H ivv Caruwayes..the poticaries call it carui.
1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 125 Carway breaketh winde.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvii. 243 Carraway has no proper involucrum.
1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 124 Caraway is the object of field culture in Essex, and on other stiff soils.
2. The fruit or ‘seed’ of the caraway; also a sweetmeat or confection containing caraway-seeds. Obsolete except as Scottish carvy n.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > spice > [noun] > caraway seed
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caraway1557
saxifrage1697
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > caraway-seed sweets
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carvya1665
caraway-comfit1710
meeting seed1851
1557 F. Seager Schoole of Vertue in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 343 Bisketes or Carowayes.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cii. 89 To eate Carawayes or Biskettes, or some other kinde of Comfittes, or seedes together with Apples.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. iii. 3 We will eate a last yeeres pippen of mine owne graffing, with a dish of carrawaies.
1620 J. Melton Astrologaster 75 A piece of Cheese, Pippins, or Carrowayes.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 162 In meates, I prefer the Carewayes before..Fennel-seeds.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 5 The Caraways that the people of Paris buy out of the Shops.

Compounds

caraway-comfit n. a sweetmeat containing caraway-seeds.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > caraway-seed sweets
caraway1557
carvya1665
caraway-comfit1710
meeting seed1851
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 245. ⁋2 One Silver gilt [box] of a large Size for Cashu and Carraway Comfits.
caraway-seed n. (see 1); also attributive, as in caraway-seed biscuit.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > spice > [noun] > caraway seed
caraway-seed1548
caraway1557
saxifrage1697
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.vij Ye may vse carawey seede, or carot seede.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §54 Adding a little Coriander-seed and Carraway seed.
1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 212 Oyl of Carui-Seeds.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 84 Some sweet carrawayseed biscuits.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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