Dictionary Entry
saffron
saffron is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, adjective, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.
- 2noun
The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.
- 3noun
An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus.
- 4adjective
Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.
- 5transitive verb
To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.
- 6noun
a shade of yellow tinged with orange
- 7noun
dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus
- 8noun
Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food
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