- Any plant of several tropical American species of
Smilax. - The bitter mucilaginous roots of such plants, used in
medicine and in sirups for soda, etc.
- A spice - Curry spice - Pungent spice - Spice seed - The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several
plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere,
and much used as a condiment, and in medicine. - A plant which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria
Cardamomum and several species of Amomum.