coriander plant

Questions about coriander plant

What does coriander plant mean?

coriander plant means "Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley".

What is another word for coriander plant?

Close synonyms include coriander, Chinese parsley, cilantro, Coriandrum sativum. 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 coriander plant a common word?

coriander plant 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.