in materia medica, the seeds of a species of ammonium. They are distinguished into the lesser and greater. The greater cardamom is a dried fruit or pod containing two rows of small triangular seeds of a warm aromatic flavour. The lesser is about half the size of the former, and the seeds are considerably stronger both in smell and taste. Hence this root is the only one now used as a medicine. The seeds are warm, grateful, pungent, aromatic, and frequently employed as such in practice.