Dictionary of foods

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  • Cabbage roll
  • Cabbage noun any of various types of cabbage;  any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers;  informal terms for money;  verb make off with belongings of others
  • Caesar salad noun typically having fried croutons and dressing made with a raw egg
  • Cajanus cajan noun tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics
  • Cajanus scarabaeoides
  • Calabash noun a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd;  tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds;  round gourd of the calabash tree;  bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd;  Old World climbing plant with hard shelled bottle shaped gourds as fruits
  • Calabaza
  • Calathea allouia
  • Caldo verde
  • Calendula officinalis noun the common European annual marigold
  • Callophyllis variegata
  • Calypso bean
  • Camassia quamash noun plant having a large edible bulb and linear basal leaves and racemes of light to deep violet blue star shaped flowers on tall green scapes; western North America
  • Camassia noun genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs
  • Campanula rapunculus noun bellflower of Europe and Asia and North Africa having bluish flowers and an edible tuberous root used with the leaves in salad
  • Campari tomato
  • Canavalia gladiata noun twining tropical Old World plant bearing long pods usually with red or brown beans; long cultivated in Orient for food
  • Candlenut oil
  • Canola oil noun vegetable oil made from rapeseed
  • Canolol
  • Caprese salad
  • Capsella bursa pastoris
  • Capsicum noun any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers;  chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers
  • Caragana arborescens noun large spiny shrub of eastern Asia having clusters of yellow flowers; often cultivated in shelterbelts and hedges
  • Caraway noun leaves used sparingly in soups and stews;  a Eurasian plant with small white flowers yielding caraway seed
  • Cardoon noun only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes;  southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots
  • Carob pod oil
  • Carob noun powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute;  evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob;  long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp; used as animal feed and source of a chocolate substitute
  • Carpobrotus edulis noun low growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp
  • Carrot juice noun usually freshly squeezed juice of carrots
  • Carrot seed oil
  • Carrot noun promise of reward as in "carrot and stick";  orange root; important source of carotene;  perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions;  deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant
  • Carter Green
  • Cassava noun any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch;  cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca;  a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics
  • Castile soap noun a good hard soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide
  • Catjang
  • Caulerpa lentillifera
  • Caulerpa
  • Cauliflower noun compact head of white undeveloped flowers;  a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds
  • Celebrity tomato
  • Celeriac noun thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant;  grown for its thickened edible aromatic root
  • Celery noun stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning;  widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked
  • Celosia argentea noun weedy annual with spikes of silver white flowers
  • Celosia trigyna
  • Celosia noun annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa
  • Celtuce noun leaves having celery like stems eaten raw or cooked;  lettuce valued especially for its edible stems
  • Cercospora melongenae
  • Chaerophyllum bulbosum
  • Chamaedorea tepejilote
  • Chard noun long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves;  beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks
  • Chayote
  • Chengiopanax sciadophylloides
  • Chenopodiastrum murale
  • Chenopodium album noun common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb
  • Chenopodium berlandieri
  • Chenopodium californicum
  • Chenopodium fremontii
  • Chenopodium giganteum
  • Chenopodium nuttalliae
  • Cherokee purple
  • Cherry tomato noun small red to yellow tomatoes;  plant bearing small red to yellow fruit
  • Cherry pit oil
  • Chervil noun fresh ferny parsley like leaves used as a garnish with chicken and veal and omelets and green salads and spinach;  aromatic annual Old World herb cultivated for its finely divided and often curly leaves for use especially in soups and salads
  • Chickpea noun large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried;  Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds;  the seed of the chickpea plant
  • Chicory noun crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste;  root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee;  perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads;  the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute
  • Chile relleno
  • Chiles en nogada
  • Chili pepper noun very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency;  plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
  • Chili oil
  • Chinese cabbage noun elongated head of crisp celery like stalks and light green leaves;  plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery; used as a vegetable in east Asia
  • Chinese yam noun hardy Chinese vine naturalized in United States and cultivated as an ornamental climber for its glossy heart shaped cinnamon scented leaves and in the tropics for its edible tubers
  • Chonggak radish
  • Choy sum
  • Chrism noun a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam
  • Chrysanthemum noun any of numerous perennial Old World herbs having showy brightly colored flower heads of the genera Chrysanthemum, Argyranthemum, Dendranthema, Tanacetum; widely cultivated;  the flower of a chrysanthemum plant
  • Chwinamul
  • Cicer arietinum noun Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds
  • Cicer noun chickpea plant; Asiatic herbs
  • Cipolla di Giarratana
  • Cipollino
  • Cladosiphon okamuranus
  • Cladosporium cucumerinum
  • Claytonia perfoliata
  • Cleome gynandra
  • Cnidoscolus aconitifolius
  • Coccinia grandis
  • Cochlearia noun a genus of the family Cruciferae
  • Cocklebur oil
  • Cocktail onion
  • Cocoa butter noun the vegetable fat from the cacao that is extracted from chocolate liquor; the basis for white chocolate;  a yellow white fat from cocoa beans
  • Coconut oil noun oil from coconuts
  • Cohune oil noun semisolid fat from nuts of the cohune palm; used in cooking and soap making
  • Cole noun coarse curly leafed cabbage;  a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head
  • Collard noun variety of kale having smooth leaves
  • Colocasia esculenta noun herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves
  • Colocasia gigantea
  • Colza oil noun edible light yellow to brown oil from rapeseed used also as a lubricant or illuminant
  • Commelina benghalensis
  • Commelina ensifolia
  • Confit byaldi
  • Conopodium majus
  • Cooking banana
  • Copaiba noun an oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments
  • Corchorus olitorius
  • Corchorus noun widely distributed genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs; especially Asia;  any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers; a source of jute
  • Cordia noun tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
  • Cordyline australis noun elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand
  • Cordyline fruticosa
  • Corn chowder noun chowder containing corn
  • Corn oil noun oil from the germs of corn grains
  • Cottonseed oil noun edible oil pressed from cottonseeds
  • Cowpea noun sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure;  fruit or seed of the cowpea plant;  eaten fresh as shell beans or dried
  • Crambe maritima noun perennial of coastal sands and shingles of northern Europe and Baltic and Black Seas having racemes of small white flowers and large fleshy blue green leaves often used as potherbs
  • Crambe oil
  • Crassocephalum biafrae
  • Crassocephalum crepidioides
  • Crassocephalum rubens
  • Crassocephalum
  • Creamed corn
  • Crithmum
  • Crotalaria longirostrata
  • Croton oil noun viscid acrid brownish yellow oil from the seeds of Croton tiglium having a violent cathartic action
  • Cruciferous vegetables
  • Crudit
  • Cubanelle
  • Cucumber juice
  • Cucumber noun cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons;  a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit
  • Cucumis anguria
  • Cuphea oil
  • Cyclanthera pedata
  • Cymbopetalum costaricense
  • Cymbopetalum penduliflorum
  • Cyperus esculentus noun European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers
  • Cyrtosperma merkusii
  • Daikon noun radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked

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