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saffron crocus

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Noun1.saffron crocus - Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring foodsaffron crocus - Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food
Crocus sativus, saffron
saffron - dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus
crocus - any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated
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Derived from the dried reddish-purple stigmas of the saffron crocus, it takes anything from 70,000 to 250,000 flowers to make one pound of saffron.
Official Calls Iran First Supplier of World's Saffron by FARS News Agency
AaAaAa Saffron crocus thrives in climates similar to that of the Mediterranean maquis or the North American chaparral, where hot, dry summer breezes blow across arid and semi-arid lands.
Saffron Harvest Starts in Turkey by Cihan News Agency (CNA)
It comes from dried stigmas of saffron crocus (Crocus sativus).
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