| 单词 | spice |
| 释义 | spice (once / 583 pages) nv WORD FAMILY spice: spiced, spicery, spices, spicing, spicy+/spicery: spiceries/spicy: spicier, spiciest, spicily, spiciness USAGE EXAMPLESI was a huge Spice Girls fan, too. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Unlike his coach, Staal sees nothing wrong with relishing Saturday’s history, if only to spice up the monotony of the regular season. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) The grass-fed meat, cooked long and slow with about 16 spices, sits atop a generous mound of rice, each tiny grain perfectly thin and fluffed. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) 1n any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food Hypo|Hyper five spice powder Chinese seasoning made by grinding star anise and fennel and pepper and cloves and cinnamon allspiceground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves cinnamonspice from the dried aromatic bark of the Ceylon cinnamon tree; used as rolled strips or ground clovespice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground fennelfennel seeds are ground and used as a spice or as an ingredient of a spice mixture ginger, powdered gingerdried ground gingerroot macespice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed nutmeghard aromatic seed of the nutmeg tree used as spice when grated or ground Chinese anise, star anise, star aniseedanise-scented star-shaped fruit or seed used in Asian cooking and medicine stick cinnamondried rolled strips of cinnamon bark flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts 2n aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative Hypo|Hyper stacte (Old Testament) one of several sweet-smelling spices used in incense preservative a chemical compound that is added to protect against decay or decomposition 3n the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored Syn|Hypo|Hyper spicery, spiciness bite, pungency, raciness, sharpness a strong odor or taste property nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zesta tart spicy quality hotness, pepperinessa hot spiciness taste property a property appreciated via the sense of taste 4v add herbs or spices to Syn|Hypo|Hyper spice up, zest ginger add ginger to in order to add flavor pepperadd pepper to flavor, flavour, season lend flavor to 5v make more interesting or flavorful Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer Syn|Hypo|Hyper spice up salt add zest or liveliness to alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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