the aromatic seeds of a plant of the ginger family, used as a spice and also medicinally 小豆蔻籽
the SE Asian plant which bears these seeds 小豆蔻
Elettaria cardamomum, family Zingiberaceae 拉丁名Elettaria cardamomum,姜科
语源
late Middle English: from Old French cardamome or Latin cardamomum, from Greek kardamōmon, from kardamon 'cress' + amōmon, the name of a kind of spice plant