lemongrass

lemongrass

English

Lemongrass growing

Prepared lemongrass

Etymology

lemon +‎ grass

Pronunciation

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Noun

lemongrass (usually uncountable, plural lemongrasses)

1. One of various species of grass of the genus Cymbopogon, especially Cymbopogon citratus, which have a lemon-like taste and aroma, and are used in cooking, for tea, and for fragrance.
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     You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.

2. (colloquial, US) Sourgrass, Oxalis pes-caprae.

Translations

species of grass of the genus Cymbopogon

Arabic: إِذْخِر‎ m (ʾiḏḵir) Armenian: Old Armenian: վաղամեռուկ (vałameṙuk) Assamese: গান্ধবিৰিণা (gandhobirina), গন্ধবিৰিণা (gondhobirina) Brunei Malay: sarai Burmese: စပါးလင် (my) (ca.pa:lang) Catalan: herba llimona f Central Melanau: sarai Chinese: Cantonese: 香茅 (hoeng1 maau4) Mandarin: 香茅 (zh) (xiāngmáo), 檸檬草／柠檬草 (níngméngcǎo), 檸檬香茅／柠檬香茅 (níngméng xiāngmáo) Czech: please add this translation if you can Danish: citrongræs n Dutch: citroengras (nl) n Dzongkha: ཧུམ་ཅུང་རྩྭ་ (hum cung rtswa) Esperanto: citronherbo Fijian: coboi, bucago, bucavu, irabo Finnish: sitruunaruoho, sitrusheinä (fi) French: citronnelle (fr) f, herbe citron f, schénanthe (fr) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Zitronengras (de) n, Lemongras n Hawaiian: lūkini, lāpine Iranun: please add this translation if you can Isan: ซิงไค Italian: citronella f Japanese: レモングラス (remongurasu) Kannada: ಮಜ್ಜಿಗೆ ಹುಲ್ಲು (majjige hullu) Khmer: គ្រៃ (krɨy), ស្លឹកគ្រៃ (sləkkrɨy) Korean: 레몬그래스 (remon'geuraeseu) Lao: ສິງໄຄ (lo) (sing khai) Maguindanao: please add this translation if you can Malay: serai Indonesian: serai Maranao: please add this translation if you can Mon: please add this translation if you can Polish: palczatka cytrynowa (pl) f Portuguese: capim-limão m, erva-do-príncipe f Romanian: citronelă f Russian: лимо́нное со́рго n (limónnoje sórgo), цимбопого́н (ru) m (cimbopogón), лимо́нная трава́ f (limónnaja travá), цитроне́лла f (citronɛ́lla) Samoan: moegalo Shan: ၶႃးႁွမ် (shn) (kháa hǎum) Slovak: please add this translation if you can Slovene: limonska trava f Southern Thai: ไคร Spanish: té de limón m, caña de limón f, zacate de limón m, hierbaluisa f Swahili: mchaichai Swedish: citrongräs n Tagalog: tanglad, tanlad, nugo Tausug: please add this translation if you can Telugu: నిమ్మగడ్డి (te) (nimmagaḍḍi) Thai: ตะไคร้ (th) (dtà-krái) Tongan: moengalo Turkish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: sả (vi) West Coast Bajau: sarei Yakan: please add this translation if you can

Cymbopogon citratus

Bulgarian: лимонова трева f (limonova treva) Estonian: harilik sidrunhein Finnish: intiansitrusheinä Swedish: västindiskt citrongräs n

See also

• sourgrass
• citronella grass

See also

• citronella

Further reading

• Cymbopogon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cymbopogon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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Spanish

Noun

lemongrass m (uncountable)

1. lemongrass

   Synonyms: hierba de limón, hierbaluisa, limonaria, cedrón, paja cedrón, malojillo