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Definition of Nutmeg flower
1. Noun. Herb of the Mediterranean region having pungent seeds used like those of caraway.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nutmeg Flower
Literary usage of Nutmeg flower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1860)
"Oil of Nutmeg-flower. In the arillus of the nutmeg, which, when comminuted and
... Smells strongly of nutmeg-flower, and has a burning aromatic taste. ..."
2. Principles of Organic and Physiological Chemistry by Carl Löwig (1853)
"O,, is separated from Nutmeg-flower ,%J -1/^7 *j-\ • i. -^iv oil nutmeg-blossom
oil (Oleum ... Nutmegflower ..."
3. Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia: On the Care of the Aged and Maximianus by Gabriele de Zerbis, Levi Robert Lind (1988)
"Oil of costus is efficacious as well as that of nigella [fennel and nutmeg flower,
St. Catherine's flower] and oil of black mustard. ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"All of the genus are tropical, being moat abundant in the islands of Asia, though
nutmeg flower and Leaf ..."
5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"All of the genus are tropical, being most abundant in the islands of Asia, though
nutmeg flower and Leaf ..."
6. The Voyage of John Huyghen Van Linschoten to the East Indies: From the Old by Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Arthur Coke Burnell, Pieter Anton Tiele (1885)
"This hath about it a hard shell like wood, wherein the Nut lyeth loose : and this
wooden shel or huske is covered over with nutmeg flower, which is called ..."
7. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"nutmeg flower. See NIGELLA. NUTMEG STATE. Connecticut. Sec STATES, POPULAR NAMES OF.
NUTRIA. The local Spanish name in South America for the coypu (qv), ..."
8. A Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences by Richard Dennis Hoblyn (1865)
"... a longer kind of nutmeg, imported in the shell, being called the male nutmeg.
[NUTMEG-FLOWER. ..."
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