Many Indian dishes are cooked in vegetable oil ; but peanut oil is popular in northern and western India ; mustard oil is more commonly used in eastern India ; coconut oil is used widely along the western coast, especially in Kerala ; while gingelly ( sesame ) oil is common in the south as it imparts a fragrant nutty aroma to food.

The most common plant is a tough variety of grass, but there are many scented and medicinal herbs: sage, feather grass and Xeranthemum, giving a fragrant spring, and during the year providing the best forage for bees.

From Paris John Sibthorpe, professor of Botany at Oxford, obtained the specimen that he introduced to British horticulture: by 1797 lemon verbena was common in greenhouses around London, and its popularity as essential in a fragrant bouquet increased through the following century.

Their large, fragrant flowers give them their common name of angel's trumpets, a name sometimes used for the closely related genus Datura.

That this perennial vine has fragrant flowers is a common misconception ( though there may be hybrid varieties as such )-said to be reminiscent of hyacinths-with a distinctive curled shape, giving rise to the common names corkscrew vine, snail vine, snail creeper, or snail bean.

It is distinguished from the common bluebell by its paler, larger blue flowers, more erect flower stem ( raceme ), broader leaves, blue anthers ( where the common bluebell has creamy-white ones ) and little or no scent compared to the strong fragrant scent of the northern species.

Clematis flammula is a temperate liana known by the common name fragrant virgin's bower.

Parsley and sage are common, with a few Caribbean additions like nutmeg.

Spices were among the most demanded and expensive products available in Europe in the Middle Ages, the most common being black pepper, cinnamon ( and the cheaper alternative cassia ), cumin, nutmeg, ginger and cloves.

Some of the most common metheglins are ginger, tea, orange peel, nutmeg, coriander, cinnamon, cloves or vanilla.

In the English-speaking Caribbean islands it is common to add cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar and almond essence to the oats, water and milk.

Examples include brewer's yeast, vitamin C, bitter melon, wild carrot, blue cohosh, pennyroyal, nutmeg, mugwort, slippery elm, papaya, vervain, common rue, ergot, saffron and tansy.

Various Allium species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera including cabbage moth, common swift moth ( recorded on garlic ), garden dart moth, large yellow underwing moth, nutmeg moth, setaceous Hebrew character moth, turnip moth and Schinia rosea, a moth that feeds exclusively on Allium species.

Other common ingredients include ground cocoa, cinnamon, sesame seeds, nutmeg, tigernuts and vanilla.

Vanilla is a common flavoring, with grated nutmeg sprinkled on top.

The use of spices like clove, nutmeg, mace and cinnamon was common in late medieval and renaissance meat dishes.

Some common ingredients include beef tripe, beef, bay leaf, parsley, carrot, beef broth, and spices to taste, including salt, black pepper, nutmeg, sweet paprika, and marjoram.

The isolation of trimyristin from powdered nutmeg is a common introductory-level college organic chemistry experiment.

The genus is native to Africa, and is common in the Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, the islands of Africa including Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula.

The arctic fox ( Vulpes lagopus, formerly known as Alopex lagopus ), also known as the white fox, polar fox or snow fox, is a small fox native to Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and is common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.

Among the more common of such " native elements " are copper, silver, gold, carbon ( as coal, graphite, or diamonds ), sulfur, and mercury.

The common name originally may have been spelled " chitmunk ," from the native Odawa ( Ottawa ) word jidmoonh, meaning " red squirrel " ( cf.

Another three tree species are common, and may be native, but may also have been introduced by humans: Casuarina equisetifolia, Hibiscus tiliaceus, and Pipturus argenteus.

If Language A borrowed a word from Language B, or both borrowed the word from a third language or inherited it from a common ancestor, and later the word shifted in meaning or acquired additional meanings in at least one of these languages, a native speaker of one language will face a false friend when learning the other.

In North America, the most common grape juice is purple and made from Concord grapes while white grape juice is commonly made from Niagara grapes, both of which are varieties of native American grapes, a different species from European wine grapes.

Interlingua was developed to combine a simple, mostly regular grammar with a vocabulary common to the widest possible range of languages, making it unusually easy to learn, at least for those whose native languages were sources of Interlingua's vocabulary and grammar.

The jaguar is also a common fixture in the mythology of many contemporary native cultures in South America, usually being portrayed as the creature which gave humans the power over fire.

The dolphin-man ( boto encantado ) is common in native North-Brazilian folklore.

A very high specific gravity becomes very pronounced in native metals ; kamacite, an iron-nickel alloy common in iron meteorites has a specific gravity of 7. 9, and gold has an observed specific gravity between 15 and 19. 3.

This includes a variety of native fish such as the famous Murray cod, trout cod, golden perch, Macquarie perch, silver perch, eel-tailed catfish, Australian smelt and western carp gudgeon, to name a few, and other aquatic species like the Murray short-necked turtle, Murray River crayfish, broad-clawed yabbies and the large clawed Macrobrachium shrimp, as well as aquatic species more widely distributed through south-eastern Australia such as common long-necked turtles, common yabbies, the small claw-less Paratya shrimp, water rats and Platypus.

* there was a concept of native title at common law ;

Thus the court accepted that a modified doctrine of tenure operated in Australia, and that the law of tenure ( as a product of the common law ) could co-exist with the law of native title ( as a product of customary laws and traditions ), though where there had been a valid grant of fee simple by the Crown the latter title would be extinguished.

* Fragmentation of proprietary interests: Justice Toohey made the argument that common law possessory title could form the basis for native title claims by indigenous Australians.

In the American Southwest, especially New Mexico, a syncretism between the Catholicism brought by Spanish missionaries and the native religion is common ; the religious drums, chants, and dances of the Pueblo people are regularly part of Masses at Santa Fe's Saint Francis Cathedral.

The people of eastern Nicaragua appear to have traded with and been influenced by the native peoples of the Caribbean, as round thatched huts and canoes, both typical of the Caribbean, were common in eastern Nicaragua.

Panga is the common South African name for Pterogymnus laniarius, a small, ocean-dwelling fish, native to the southeast Atlantic Ocean and southwest Indian Ocean.

TrueType has long been the most common format for fonts on both Mac OS and Windows, although both also include native support for Adobe's Type 1 format and the OpenType extension to TrueType ( since Mac OS X 10. 0 and Windows 2000 ).

According to author Brian Carroll, Lyons had been underestimated when he assumed office in 1932 and as leader he demonstrated: " a combination of honesty, native shrewdness, tact, administrative ability, common sense, good luck and good humour that kept him in the job longer than any previous Prime Minister except Hughes ".

Indonesian is a standardized register of " Riau Malay ", which despite its common name is not the Malay dialect native to Riau, but rather the Classical Malay of the Malaccan royal courts.

While the efficiency of digital waveguide synthesis made physical modelling feasible on common DSP hardware and native processors, the convincing emulation of physical instruments often requires the introduction of non-linear elements, scattering junctions, etc.

* Pálenka or " Pálené " made with and fruit whose native name ends in-ica, is a common traditional description for Slovak brandy.