clove

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

clove [clove cloves] BrE [kləʊv] NAmE [kloʊv] noun
1. countable, uncountable the dried flower of a tropical tree, used in cooking as a spice, especially to give flavour to sweet foods. Cloves look like small nails.
2. countable a garlic ~ | a ~ of garlic one of the small separate sections of a ↑bulb (= the round underground part) of ↑garlic
•Use one crushed clove of garlic.
see also ↑cleave _v.

Word Origin:
sense 1 Middle English Old French clou de girofle ‘nail of gillyflower’ sense 2 Old English clufu Germanic German Knoblauch Old High German klovolouh ↑cleave ‘to split something in two’

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  garlic clove, clove tree, Syzygium aromaticum, Eugenia aromaticum, Eugenia caryophyllatum