Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The fresh stems and finely divided young leaves of the coriander plant, used in salads and various dishes as a flavoring and garnish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an Old World herb (
Coriandrum sativum ) with aromatic parsleylike leaves and seed. - noun a parsleylike herb used as seasoning or garnish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US the leaves of the
coriander plant.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish
- noun Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Since we are having so much fun with this; in my old San Francisco neighborhood adjacent to Chinatown, cilantro is known as chinese parsley.
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Since we are having so much fun with this; in my old San Francisco neighborhood adjacent to Chinatown, cilantro is known as chinese parsley.
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Since we are having so much fun with this; in my old San Francisco neighborhood adjacent to Chinatown, cilantro is known as chinese parsley.
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Since we are having so much fun with this; in my old San Francisco neighborhood adjacent to Chinatown, cilantro is known as chinese parsley.
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Since we are having so much fun with this; in my old San Francisco neighborhood adjacent to Chinatown, cilantro is known as chinese parsley.
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Since we are having so much fun with this; in my old San Francisco neighborhood adjacent to Chinatown, cilantro is known as chinese parsley.
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The normal cilantro is shooting up to flower, but ‘Delfino’ is still beautifully moundy.
Incredible Edible of the Week: cilantro ‘Delfino’ « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009
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Feb 9th, 2010 at 12: 52 pm monstermooch: cilantro is awesome. the more the better.
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Since we are having so much fun with this; in my old San Francisco neighborhood adjacent to Chinatown, cilantro is known as chinese parsley.
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Since we are having so much fun with this; in my old San Francisco neighborhood adjacent to Chinatown, cilantro is known as chinese parsley.
Page 2 2009
polymorph commented on the word cilantro
Cilantro was left in the Pharoah's tombs to prevent indigestion in the afterlife.
There's also a humorous discussion about cilantro over at veganporn.com.
People have enough hatred of cilantro that a domain was spawned to fight it: ihatecilantro.com
April 9, 2007
catherin25 commented on the word cilantro
Just for fun
February 22, 2010
dontcry commented on the word cilantro
Totally soap.
April 20, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word cilantro
cilantrophobe.
April 20, 2010
frogapplause commented on the word cilantro
The funniest (and most unexpected) use of the word cilantro I've seen so far.
cilantro.
August 5, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word cilantro
"...confident with undertones of playfulness and cilantro..." -- hilarious. This phrase should be the name of a list.
August 5, 2010