melegueta

Ellen Dierenfeld, a gorilla nutritionist at the St. Louis Zoo, says that a member of the ginger family, Aframomum melegueta, is a staple food of western lowland gorillas in their native environments.

Zoo gorillas dying from heart disease - scientists want to know why Field Notes 2008

Each of the spices in the three mixtures appears in other combinations, and some recipes also use coriander seeds and cardamom, as well as spices that are even more exotic today than they were in fourteenth-century Venice, such as galingale and melegueta pepper.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

Ellen Dierenfeld, a gorilla nutritionist at the St. Louis Zoo, says that a member of the ginger family, Aframomum melegueta, is a staple food of western lowland gorillas in their native environments.

Archive 2008-04-01 Field Notes 2008

Grains of Paradise Grains of paradise, guinea grains, alligator pepper, and melegueta pepper are all names for the small seeds of Aframomum melegueta.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Grains of Paradise Grains of paradise, guinea grains, alligator pepper, and melegueta pepper are all names for the small seeds of Aframomum melegueta.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

In the case of ointments and orally administered medicines, the plants are often ground to a paste with palm oil, and other ingredients like Aframomum melegueta seeds are added.

Chapter 7 1991

Mashed leaves with Aframomum melegueta rubbed into cuts in jam to release muscle

Chapter 7 1991

Grains of paradise have sometimes been identified by modern scholars as cardamom, but more likely they were the seeds of a West African plant of the ginger family, Ammomum melegueta.32

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

Grains of paradise have sometimes been identified by modern scholars as cardamom, but more likely they were the seeds of a West African plant of the ginger family, Ammomum melegueta.32

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

"Amomum meleguetta" amended to _Amomum melegueta_.

Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861