curcuma domestica

What does curcuma domestica mean?

curcuma domestica means "widely cultivated tropical plant of India having yellow flowers and a large aromatic deep yellow rhizome; source of a condiment and a yellow dye".

What is another word for curcuma domestica?

Close synonyms include turmeric, Curcuma longa. 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 curcuma domestica a common word?

curcuma domestica 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for curcuma domestica come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.