a bright yellow aromatic powder obtained from the rhizome of a plant of the ginger family, used for flavouring and colouring in Asian cookery and formerly as a fabric dye 姜黄根粉,郁金根粉
the Asian plant from which this rhizome is obtained 姜黄郁金
Curcuma longa, family Zingiberaceae 拉丁名Curcuma longa,姜科
语源
late Middle English (earlier as tarmaret): perhaps from French terre mérite and modern Latin terra merita, literally 'deserving earth', perhaps an alteration of an oriental word