GRANA PARADISI
\ɡɹˈɑːnə pˈaɹədˌɪsi], \ɡɹˈɑːnə pˈaɹədˌɪsi], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈɑː_n_ə p_ˈa_ɹ_ə_d_ˌɪ_s_i]\
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The unripe seeds of Amomum granum Paradisi and of Amomum Melegueta. They are feebly aromatic, and very pungent in taste. They contain resin and a faintly yellowish aromatic essential oil, not acrid. They are used chiefly in veterinary medicine and to give pungency to liquors.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).
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