Cor i and rum (kor-e-an'drum). 1

A genus of umbelliferous plants. 2. Of the U. S. Ph., the fruit of C. sativum, coriandri fructus. The dried fruit of Cor i and rum sativum [Br. Ph.], C. sativum. An annual species widely cultivated for the sake of its fruit, coriander, which becomes fragrant when dried (though all parts of the fresh plant are very fetid when bruised), has the ordinary medicinal virtues of the aromatics, and is used to disguise the taste of other medicines, or to correct their griping qualities. The aromatic taste and odor depend on a volatile oil. oleum coriandri. An aromatic volatile oil obtained from coriander fruit [U. S. Ph., Br. Ph.] [Gr., kor i and ron, koriannon, korianon.']