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# turmeric

«turmeric» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bright yellow-orange spice made from the dried and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (turmeric; uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

Turmeric is a bright yellow-orange spice made from the dried and ground root of a plant in the ginger family. It is used in curries and to colour food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turmeric/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Food and geography: turmeric is used a lot in Indian, South Asian and other cooking and gives curry its yellow colour; India grows most of the world's turmeric. Science: it stains clothes and fingers yellow, and its colour changes to red-brown in alkaline solutions, so it can be used as an indicator in experiments. Myth: turmeric is sometimes sold as a cure for many illnesses, but scientists have not shown strong proof that it cures diseases.

### examples

- Turmeric makes the rice yellow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turmeric/#x1)
- Mum added a spoon of turmeric to the curry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turmeric/#x2)
- Turmeric stained my fingers orange. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turmeric/#x3)
- Turmeric comes from a root, like ginger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turmeric/#x4)
- In science, turmeric paper turned red with soap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turmeric/#x5)
- Be careful, turmeric stains are hard to wash out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turmeric/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Spelling trap: tur-mer-ic (people often say «TOO-mer-ik» and forget the first r). Said «TUR-muh-rik».

### In the corpora

- [Yellow turmeric turns reddish-brown with an alkali, so a curry stain can turn red when washed with soap.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «turmeric» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turmeric/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.