curd

Meanings

Noun

• The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.
• The coagulated part of any liquid.
• The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants.

Verb

• To form curd; to curdle.
• To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.

Origin

• From Middle English curd, a metathetic variant of crud, crudde. More at crud.