Meaning of குங்குமப்பூ in English
- A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively.
- To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl.
- An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.
- The dried flowers of the Carthamus tinctorius.
- A dyestuff from these flowers. See Safranin (b).
- The safflower.
- A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.
- The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.
- An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus.
- Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.
- To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.
- Having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish.
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