cumin seed

1. 1.

   aromatic seeds of the cumin herb of the carrot family

   Synonymscumin

   Broaderedible seed

   Part ofcumin

Questions about cumin seed

What does cumin seed mean?

cumin seed means "aromatic seeds of the cumin herb of the carrot family".

What is another word for cumin seed?

Close synonyms include cumin. 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 cumin seed a common word?

cumin seed 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.