Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CO-RI-AN'DER
CO-RI-AN'DER, n. [L. coriandrum; Gr. κοριον, κοριανον.]
The popular name of a genus of plants of one species. The seeds of this species have a strong smell, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.
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