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Definition of Turmerics
1. turmeric [n] - See also: turmeric
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turmerics
Literary usage of Turmerics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1889)
"... sugar- canes, turmerics, also tropical and South China plants. Throughout the
island the wild date, sugar-canes and liquidambar trees flourish. ..."
2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1860)
"... however, have arisen from the examination of a recent root instead of a dried
specimen, as all the turmerics become much darker in drying. ..."
3. Medical and Surgical Reporter (1854)
"Considerable delay had occurred while revising his history of the Cardamoms and
Turmerics—not matters of great practical moment, but sufficiently important ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1904)
"In habit above ground it resembles the Turmerics (Curcuma) but has the pseudo-stem
of Amomum ; the subterranean habit is very similar to that of some of the ..."
5. A Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the United States of by Daniel Haskel, John Calvin Smith (1843)
"It has a store, 1 flouring m., and 2 saw in. There are in the t., 7 stores, cap.
$3300; 2 turmerics, 1 printing office, 1 weekly newspaper, 2 saw m. ..."
6. Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science (1867)
"... when the salt in their turmerics is detected, have been known to state ID
extenuation that the article had been damaged by seawater, although men in ..."
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