Spice vs Myristicin - What's the difference?
spice | myristicin |
(countable, uncountable) Plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
(figurative, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.
(uncountable, Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
(obsolete) Species; kind.
* Wyclif Bible, 1 Thessalonians v. 22
* Sir T. Elyot
To add spice or spices to.
(nonce word)
(organic compound) 3-methoxy,4,5-methylendioxy-allylbenzene, a natural organic compound found in the essential oil of nutmeg and to a lesser extent in other spices; it can be used as an insecticide and acaricide and has hallucinogenic properties at high doses.
As nouns the difference between spice and myristicin
is that spice is plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food while myristicin is 3-methoxy,4,5-methylendioxy-allylbenzene, a natural organic compound found in the essential oil of nutmeg and to a lesser extent in other spices; it can be used as an insecticide and acaricide and has hallucinogenic properties at high doses.As a verb spice
is to add spice or spices to.spice
English
(wikipedia spice)Etymology 1
From (etyl) espice (modern .Noun
- Abstain you from all evil spice .
- Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices . The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative.