thyme
USTYM/taɪm/
Pluralthymes
- 1A small garden herb with a strong, warm smell, used to add flavor to food.
She added a pinch of thyme to the soup.
Fresh thyme grows well in our sunny garden.
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Origin
It comes from an old Greek word for the plant, which passed through Latin and French into English.