(n.) A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative.
(n.) A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Petra's spinster landladies added caraway seeds to their mix.
(2) The enantiomers R-(-)- and S-(+)-carvone are the organoleptic constituents in oil of spearmint and caraway, respectively.
(3) Caraway carrot cake with poppy seeds Photograph: Yuki Sugiura for the Guardian They're not much to look at – tiny, banana-shaped brown things – but caraway seeds have a unique flavour.
(4) salt, pepper, paprika, caraway-seed) had very high concentrations of all three minerals and poppy-seeds that of Ca and Mg.
(5) When patients' values for eight common clinical-chemical tests and five therapeutic drugs were compared with values from specimens concomitantly collected in plain Caraway tubes, only chloride and total CO2 were significantly different.
(6) Caraway knows intimately the outcome of what he describes as this “perfect brew” of official encouragement and Big Pharma marketing.
(7) The inhibitory compounds are: aromatic isothiocyanates found in cruciferous vegetables, monoterpenes present in citrus fruits and caraway-seed oil, and organosulphur compounds occurring in Allium species.
(8) But 10 years down the line we have come to understand the consequences.” Caraway points out that in the late 90s the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organisations, a private body that provides guidelines for hospitals, launched an initiative that encouraged doctors to wage war on pain wherever they found it.
(9) Cross-reactivity amongst the Apiaceae is the cause of the many positive results obtained with carrot, parsely, anise, fennel and caraway, the carrot allergy being of clinical importance in 50% of cases, including one with a history of anaphylactic shock after ingestion of raw carrots.
(10) The three are: aromatic isothiocyanates found in cruciferous vegetables, monoterpenes from citrus fruits and caraway seed oils, and organosulfur compounds occurring in Allium species.
(11) A new method has been developed for the extraction of light filth from ground mace and ground caraway seed.
(12) The radioactive iron-magnesium carbonate method, compared with the methods of Caraway (1963), Herbert, Gottlieb, Lau, Fisher, Grevirtz, and Wasserman (1966), and Bothwell, Jacobs, and Kamener (1959), was shorter and simpler and equally reproducible.
(13) The most horrifying thing I’ve seen is that this is causing hopelessness leading to suicide and murder,” Caraway says.
(14) Seven different spices (thyme, cinnamon, coriander, caraway, pimento, paprika, black pepper) were treated by gamma radiation at an absorbed dose of 10 kGy, and the effect on chemical quality was determined.
(15) Brussels sprouts with burnt butter, black garlic and caraway Serve these straight out of the hot pan, otherwise the sprouts will lose that vibrant colour.
(16) Leaves of caraway and fennel in addition contain isorhammetin glycosides in low concentration.
(17) Aqueous extracts of different spices (chilli pepper, paprika, caraway, coriander leaves, coriander seeds, cinnamon, ginger, onion, curry, and parsley) caused a dose-related contractile response of isolated guinea pig tracheal smooth muscle.
(18) Add the garlic, caraway, allspice and peppercorns, and sauté for five more minutes, until everything is nice and soft.
(19) Both recoverable serum and the incidence of hemolysis were lower in Samplette specimens than in Caraway specimens.
(20) After adjustment for an empirical living conditions score, the following food items were found to be associated with an increased risk for NPC: preserved spiced meat (quaddid), basic stewing preparation (mixture of red and black pepper, garlic, oil, caraway and coriander), and harissa (red pepper, olive oil, garlic, caraway, salt) taken with bread as a snack during childhood and youth.
Sweetmeat
Definition:
(n.) Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
(n.) The paint used in making patent leather.
(n.) A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first thing that Mikhail Khodorkovsky would have seen when he entered the most historic of all five-star establishments in Berlin would have been a large, illuminated model of the hotel itself, made of cinnamon-flavoured sweetmeat.
(2) He bought sweetmeats in a leaf-cup from a Hindu trader, and ate them with glad rapture until a policeman ordered him off the steps."
(3) He lures an old man with sweetmeats and carries him off.
(4) There is an Indian lullaby about the Moon Uncle , who lives far away, eating delicious sweetmeats and offering some in a bowl to the baby.