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Definition of Kummel
1. Noun. Liqueur flavored with caraway seed or cumin.
Definition of Kummel
1. n. A Russian and German liqueur, consisting of a sweetened spirit flavored with caraway seeds.
Definition of Kummel
1. a type of liqueur [n -S] - See also: liqueur
Medical Definition of Kummel
1. A Russian and German liqueur, consisting of a sweetened spirit flavored with caraway seeds. Origin: G. Kummel cumin, caraway seed, L. Cuminum. Cf. Cumin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kummel
Literary usage of Kummel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 by James Bruce (1804)
"THE fibres, which bear the flowers of the kummel, are greenish at the base, and
assume upwards a russet colour, inclining to that of cinnamon. ..."
2. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1904)
"By HEINRICH RIES AND HENRY B. kummel, ASSISTED BY GEORGE N. KNAPP. (Geological
Survey of New Jersey, Vol. VI.) Pp. xxi + 548; LVI plates, and 41 figures in ..."
3. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1903)
"HP kummel, state geologist of New Jersey, is dangerously low with typhoid fever
at Lake-Side hospital, Milwau- J \MF.S M. HYDE, formerly curator of the ..."
4. Final Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1910)
"... many iron mines and prospects which have been worked during the past century.
Yours respectfully. HENRY B. kummel, April igth, 1910. State Geologist. ..."
5. The British Flora Medica: A History of the Medicinal Plants of Great Britain by Benjamin Herbert Barton, Thomas Castle (1877)
"... GEMEINER kummel. Description.—Root biennial, fusiform, whitish, about the
thickness of the thumb, furnished with numerous i- Stems erect, firm, ..."
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