curcuma

Meaning of curcuma

noun

a tropical Asian plant of a genus that includes turmeric, zedoary, and other species that yield spices, dyes, and medicinal products.

modern Latin, from Arabic kurkum ‘saffron’, from Sanskrit kuṅkuma (so named because the colour of the spices resembles that of saffron).

Information about curcuma

It is a name.
The plural form of curcuma is: curcumas.
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Hyphenation of curcuma

cur-cuma

It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
curcuma is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

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Words that rhyme with curcuma

Decuma, decuma, tecuma, jocuma, Curcuma, Lucuma, lucuma, tucuma

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