[kur-kyoo-muh] 
| any of various chiefly Old World plants belonging to the genus Curcuma, of the ginger family, as C. domestica, yielding turmeric, or C. zedoaria, yielding zedoary. |
| cur·cu·ma (kûr'kyə-mə) n. Any of various tropical Asian plants of the genus Curcuma, which includes turmeric and zedoary. [New Latin Curcuma, genus name, from Arabic kurkum, saffron.] |
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