Coriander

CORIANDER kor-i-an'-der (gadh; korion):

The fruit of the Coriandrum Sativum (Natural Order Umbelliferae), a plant indigenous around the Mediterranean and extensively cultivated. The fruits are aromatic and stomatic-carminative. They are of a grayish-yellow color, ribbed, ovate-globular and in size about twice that of a hemp-seed. "The manna was like coriander seed" (Numbers 11:7; see also Exodus 16:31).

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'CORIANDER'".  "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia".  1915.