Cumin or cinnamon, e.g. Crossword Clue

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Cumin or cinnamon, e.g. Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. make more interesting or flavorful
2. add herbs or spices to
(noun)
1. the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored
2. any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

CUMIN (noun)
1. aromatic seeds of the cumin herb of the carrot family
2. dwarf Mediterranean annual long cultivated for its aromatic seeds
CINNAMON (noun)
1. tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon
2. aromatic bark used as a spice

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