cilantro

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If they're black beans, add cilantro, onion, and garlic.

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Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley

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noun

Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley

noun

parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cilantro.

noun

Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley

noun

parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish

Example sentences

If they're black beans, add cilantro, onion, and garlic.

I once had a girlfriend who detested cilantro.

Severe bedbug infestations, as it turns out, reek of cilantro.

After that "loco" hike to the "mesa" I ate a "burrito" with "cilantro" then took a "siesta" on the "patio.

You might discover you both like capoeira or that you both hate Nopa, or you might discover they love cilantro and you hate it.

Garnish with avocado, cilantro, pico de gallo, etc.

I find cilantro both necessary in some dishes and absolutely amazing.

Seeing our kids wake up in the morning and take the time to check on the seed they planted or go out to the yard and get their own lettuce and cilantro for their sandwich is priceless.

For the 30% of people who are genetically disposed to hate cilantro/coriander, please have an option to not have it in the salsa or skip those types of salsas.

The cilantro they added literally gave me a flashback to 13 years before when I had been living in Mexico, even though I had been making tacos with my Mexican girlfriend ourselves at home.

Or are you suggesting either that cilantro aversion is higher among tech workers, or that people who don't dislike cilantro will also be put off by the name?I think if Wii and iPad can get past those names then this'll be fine.