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What does fenugreek mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word fenugreek? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A leguminous plant, Trigonella foenum-graecum, eaten as a vegetable and with seeds used as a spice.
  2. The seeds of this plant, used as a spice (especially in Indian and Thai cooking).
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In a study of rats given alloxan to induce diabetes, both water and alcohol extracts of fenugreek had some hypoglycemic activity.
Spices like ginger, fenugreek, cloves, cardamom and hot peppers are simmered in butter, then the solids are drained off.
The Bitter Orange lotion has extracts of orange, wheatgerm, fenugreek and winter cheery.
Generally, all spices except fenugreek and mustard shortened the food transit time.
In the first study, subjects ate meals with or without 100 g of defatted fenugreek seed powder, divided into two equal doses, for 10 days.
They knew by long practice just how much fenugreek or black mustard seed a dish asked for.

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