Definitions for fenugreek

fenugreek fen·u·greek

Spelling: [fen-yoo-greek, fen-oo-]
IPA: /ˈfɛn yʊˌgrik, ˈfɛn ʊ-/

Fenugreek is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in fenugreek (eeefgknru).

Definitions for fenugreek

noun

  1. a plant, Trigonella foenum-graecum, of the legume family, indigenous to western Asia, but extensively cultivated elsewhere, chiefly for forage and for its mucilaginous seeds, which are used in medicine.

Origin of fenugreek

before 1000; Middle English fenugrek, Old English fēnogrēcum Latin fēnum Graecum literally, Greek hay. See fennel

Examples for fenugreek

They took us into their houses and gave us fish and meat and also fenugreek, and so we abode there for nine days.

The vegetable from which they made wine was not the fenugreek, but the carrot-bean (Prosopis dulcis mimosa).

On the following days other vessels were brought in scented with fenugreek, marjoram, and lily, all of extraordinary fragrancy.

This simple recipe for asparagus with ginger, garlic, coriander, and fenugreek hits the perfect note.

“fenugreek” sounds evil; and I should say a curry compounded of the above ingredients would taste like a “Number One” pick-me-up.

Jeffrey and Naomi's simple recipe with ginger, garlic, coriander, and fenugreek hits the perfect note.

Poultices of meal of various descriptions were commonly employed, linseed or fenugreek being the favourite media.

A good tonic powder is: two drams of gentian, two drams of ginger, one-half dram of fenugreek.

Methi, or fenugreek, grows at all seasons, except from the 15th of November to the 12th of January.

Ground into flour and mixed with fenugreek seed, it is baked into bread.

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