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# Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12874

Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12874

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### [c10.12874](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12874)

1813.—“\*Safflower\* (Cussom, Hind., As-four Arab.) is the flower of an annual plant, the \*Carthamus tinctorius\*, growing in Bengal and other parts of India, which when well-cured is not easily distinguishable from saffron by the eye, though it has nothing of its smell or taste.”—\*Milburn\*, ii. 238.

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