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Encyclopedia Britannica



FENUGREEK

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 260 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FENUGREEK , in botany, Trigonelia Foenum-graecum (so called from the name given to it by the ancients, who used it as
fodder
  for cattle), a member of a genus of leguminous herbs very similar in habit and in most of their characters to the species of the genus Medicago. The leaves are formed of three obovateleaflets, the
middle
  one of which is stalked; the
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
south
  of Europe, West and Central
Asia
 , and the north of Africa, and is represented by several species in Australia. Fenugreek is indigenous to
south
 -eastern Europe and western
Asia
 , and is cultivated in the Mediterranean region, parts of central Europe, and in Morocco, and largely in
Egypt
  and in India. It bears a sickle-shaped pod, containing from ,o to 20 seeds, from which 6% of a fetid, fatty and
bitter
  oil can be extracted by
ether
 . In India the fresh plant is employed as an esculent. The seed is an ingredient in
curry
  powders, and is used for flavouring cattle foods. It was formerly much esteemed as a
medicine
 , and is still in repute in veterinary practice.


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