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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 260 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FENUGREEK , in See also:

BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany, Trigonelia Foenum-graecum (so called from the name given to it by the ancients, who used it as See also:

FODDER

fodder for See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle), a member of a genus of leguminous herbs very similar in See also:

HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit and in most of their characters to the See also:

SPECIES

species of the genus Medicago. The leaves are formed of three obovateleaflets, the See also:

MIDDLE

middle one of which is stalked; the See also:

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers are solitary, or in clusters of two or three, and have a campanulate, 5-cleft calyx; and the pods are many-seeded, cylindrical or flattened, and straight or only slightly curved. The genus is widely diffused over the See also:

south of See also:

EUROPE

Europe, See also:

West and Central See also:

ASIA

Asia, and the See also:

north of See also:

Africa, and is represented by several species in See also:

AUSTRALIA

Australia. Fenugreek is indigenous to south-eastern Europe and western Asia, and is cultivated in the Mediterranean region, parts of central Europe, and in See also:

MOROCCO

Morocco, and largely in See also:

EGYPT

Egypt and in See also:

India. It bears a sickle-shaped pod, containing from ,o to 20 seeds, from which 6% of a fetid, fatty and See also:

BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter oil can be extracted by See also:

ETHER, (C2H5)2O

ether. In India the fresh plant is employed as an esculent. The See also:

SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed is an ingredient in See also:

CURRY

curry powders, and is used for flavouring cattle foods. It was formerly much esteemed as a See also:

MEDICINE

medicine, and is still in repute in veterinary practice.

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