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Definitions of saffron in various dictionaries:
noun - Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food
noun - dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus
noun - a shade of yellow tinged with orange
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| Bouillabaisse ingredient |
| Expensive spice |
| Paella flavoring |
| Paella seasoner |
| Yellow shade |
| Paella ingredient |
| Yellow-orange |
| Paella spice |
| Spice from a crocus |
| Cook's coloring |
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| Centuries ago this spice was used to dye cloth a deep yellow; today, it gives a yellow hue to Risotto Milanese |
| It takes some 4,000 purple autumn crocuses to get 1 ounce of this yellow dye |
| Crocus is the Latin word for this expensive spice produced by a type of crocus |
| It's the first name of "Troy" co-star Burrows, so her parents were probably "mad about" a yellowish spice |
| This expensive yellow spice is a traditional ingredient in bouillabaisse |
| The song "Mellow Yellow" begins, "I'm just mad about" this |
| Paella gets that special yellow tinge from this spice |
| Though the formula is a secret, it's said yellow chartreuse gets its color from this yellow "rice" spice |
| While the flower is purple, it produces a strong yellow dye that can color rice |
| This expensive spice from La Mancha gives paella its golden hue |
| Saffron description |
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Saffron (pronounced or ) is a spice derived from the flower of Crocus sativus, commonly known as the "saffron crocus". The vivid crimson stigmas and styles, called threads, are collected and dried to be used mainly as a seasoning and colouring agent in food. Saffron, long among the world's most costly spices by weight, was probably first cultivated in or near Greece. C. sativus is probably a form of C. cartwrightianus, that emerged by human cultivators selectively breeding plants for unusually long stigmas in late Bronze Age Crete. It slowly propagated throughout much of Eurasia and was later brought to parts of North Africa, North America, and Oceania. * Saffron's taste and iodoform or hay-like fragrance result from the chemicals picrocrocin and safranal. It also contains a carotenoid pigment, crocin, which imparts a rich golden-yellow hue to dishes and textiles. Its recorded history is attested in a 7th-century BC Assyrian botanical treatise compiled under Ashurbanipal, and it has be |
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