SAFFRON
\sˈafɹɒn], \sˈafɹɒn], \s_ˈa_f_ɹ_ɒ_n]\
Definitions of SAFFRON
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.
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The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.
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An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus.
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Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.
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To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.
By Oddity Software
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A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.
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An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus.
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Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.
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To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.
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The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A kind of crocus with purple flowers whose pistils yield a deep yellow dye and are also used in medicine; a deep yellow color.
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Deep yellow.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Of the color of saffron.
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The dried stigmas of a species of crocus; also, their deep orange color, or the plant producing them.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
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The dried stigmata of Crocus sativus. It has a peculiar, strong, aromatic odor and a bitter, pungent taste. S. contains a bitter principle (picrocrocin), and polychroite (on which its coloring power depends, and which yields crocin on decomposition). S., commonly called Spanish s., is used mainly for coloring. See carthamus. [U. S. Ph., 1890; Br. Ph., 1885.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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