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coriander|kɒrɪˈændə(r)|
Forms: 4–6 coriandre, (5 coriande, 6 corandre, corriandir), 5– coriander.
[a. F. coriandre, ad. L. coriandrum, ad. Gr. κορίαννον (app. a foreign word). An early popular L. var. coliandrum gave OE. cellendre, OHG. chullantar, OF. coliandre, whence earlier Eng. coliander, q.v.]
1. An annual plant, Coriandrum sativum, family Umbelliferæ, with compound leaves and globose fruit; a native of Southern Europe, the Levant, etc., naturalized in some parts of England. The fruit is carminative and aromatic, and used for flavouring purposes.
[c1265Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 556/9 Coliandrum, coriandre.] 1388Wyclif Ex. xvi. 31 Whijt as the seed of coriandre. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xxxix. (1495) 626 The herbe Coriandre hathe gode smelle in itself whyle it is hole and sounde. 1586Cogan Haven Health xxvi. (1612) 43 Coriander, commonly Coliander, the seede is..moderately hot and dry. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xvii. 235 Coriander has no proper universal involucre. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 179 Coriander and caraway are grown extensively in Essex.
†2. Short for coriander-seed. Obs.
Small globular comfits containing a single ‘seed’ are also called corianders [so It. coriandoli].
1551Turner Herbal M j a, Coriandre layd to wyth breade or barly mele is good for saynt Antonyes fyre.
†3. slang. Coin, money; short for coriander-seed. Cf. coliander c. Obs.
1737Ozell Rabelais iv. ix. 123 (N.) The spankers, spur-royals, rose-nobles, and other coriander seed with which she was quilted all over. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. xix. 156 You..must shell out your corianders.
4. attrib., as coriander cake, coriander comfit, coriander fruit, coriander oil; coriander-seed, the popular name of the globose fruit, which contains two carpels; also slang, coin, money (see 3); † coriander wound-weed (see quot.).
1873Ouida Pascarel I. 50 No temptation of *coriander cakes, or anchovy pasties.
1656[J. Sergeant] tr. T. White's Peripat. Inst. 144 A kind of snowy-hail we sometimes see like *Coriander Confits.
1863–82Watts Dict. Chem. II. 84 *Coriander oil is a mixture of several oils.
1530Palsgr. 208/2 *Coriandre sede, coriandre. 1535Coverdale Ex. xvi. 31 It was like Coriander sede, and whyte. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 6 Little Tubercles, about the size of Coriander-Seed. 1737[see 3]. 1886Official Guide Kew Gardens, Fruits of the Coriander..known in Commerce as Coriander seeds.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 136 a, The thyrde kynde [of Sideritis]..maye be called in Englishe *Coriandre wounde wede. |