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Jos Dingjan

@johncarlosbaez In Dutch turmeric is called either “kurkuma” (after the Sanskrit name, I guess the source of both the name of the genus and of “curcumin”), “geelwortel” (= yellowroot), or kunyit/koenjit (from Indonesian)

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John Carlos Baez

@happydisciple - nice! I was wondering where that word 'curcumin' came from, and I was confused by 'cucurbits'.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbit

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