carum carvi

1. 1.

   a Eurasian plant with small white flowers yielding caraway seed

   Synonymscaraway

   Broaderherb

   Narrowerwhorled caraway

   Part ofCarum

   Partscarawaycaraway seed

Questions about carum carvi

What does carum carvi mean?

carum carvi means "a Eurasian plant with small white flowers yielding caraway seed".

What is another word for carum carvi?

Close synonyms include caraway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carum carvi a common word?

carum carvi is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.