garlic clove
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Garlic — For other uses, see Garlic (disambiguation). Garlic Allium sativum, known as garlic, from William Woodville, Medical Botany, 1793. Scientific classification … Wikipedia
garlic — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ fresh ▪ raw ▪ wild ▪ roasted … OF GARLIC ▪ clove … Collocations dictionary
Clove — Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Angiosperms … Wikipedia
Clove — Clove, n. [AS. clufe an ear of corn, a clove of garlic; cf. cle[ o]fan to split, E. cleave.] 1. (Bot.) One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic. [1913 Webster] Developing, in the axils… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
clove — Ⅰ. clove [1] ► NOUN 1) the dried flower bud of a tropical tree, used as a pungent aromatic spice. 2) (oil of cloves) an aromatic oil extracted from these buds and used for the relief of dental pain. 3) (also clove pink or clove gillyflower) a… … English terms dictionary
clove — clove1 [klōv] n. [ME clowe < OFr clou (de girofle), lit., nail (of clove) < L clavus, nail (see CLOSE2); so called from its shape] 1. the dried flower bud of a tropical evergreen tree (Eugenia aromatica) of the myrtle family, originally… … English World dictionary
garlic — O.E. garleac (Mercian), garlec (W. Saxon) garlic, from gar spear (in reference to the clove), see GAR (Cf. gar) + leac leek (see LEEK (Cf. leek)) … Etymology dictionary
clove — [ klouv ] noun count 1. ) a brown dried flower BUD used as a SPICE for flavoring food 2. ) a small section of the BULB of a GARLIC plant used for flavoring food … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
garlic — ► NOUN ▪ the strong smelling pungent tasting bulb of a plant of the onion family, used as a flavouring in cookery. DERIVATIVES garlicky adjective. ORIGIN Old English, from g r «spear» (because the shape of a clove resembles the head of a spear) + … English terms dictionary
clove — There are two distinct words clove in English. In clove of garlic [OE] the underlying notion is of ‘cutting’; the head of garlic is as it were ‘divided up’ into separate sections. The word goes back ultimately to the Indo European base *gleubh… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
