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Definitions of saffron in various dictionaries:
noun - Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food
noun - dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus
noun - a shade of yellow tinged with orange
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| During the Middle Ages, merchants who adulterated this expensive yellow spice were burnt at the stake |
| This most expensive spice in the world is used as the dye for the robes of Buddhist priests |
| Plants producing this spice in England came from a crocus bulb smuggled from the Holy Land in the 14th century |
| Curry can include cumin, tumeric & this spice, the world's most expensive |
| Robes of this "spicy" orange-yellow color let you know a boy is a Buddhist disciple |
| Risotto Alla Milanese gets its golden color from this expensive spice |
| Sur la Table sells the Spanish Mancha-Oro brand of this spice for almost $500 an ounce |
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Saffron (pronounced or ) is a spice derived from the flower of Crocus sativus, commonly known as the "saffron crocus". The vivid crimson stigmas and styles, called threads, are collected and dried to be used mainly as a seasoning and colouring agent in food. Saffron, long among the world's most costly spices by weight, was probably first cultivated in or near Greece. C. sativus is probably a form of C. cartwrightianus, that emerged by human cultivators selectively breeding plants for unusually long stigmas in late Bronze Age Crete. It slowly propagated throughout much of Eurasia and was later brought to parts of North Africa, North America, and Oceania. * Saffron's taste and iodoform or hay-like fragrance result from the chemicals picrocrocin and safranal. It also contains a carotenoid pigment, crocin, which imparts a rich golden-yellow hue to dishes and textiles. Its recorded history is attested in a 7th-century BC Assyrian botanical treatise compiled under Ashurbanipal, and it has be |
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