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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 — garlicked, garlicky, adj. /gahr lik/, n. 1. a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family whose strongly, pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine. 2. any of various other plants of the genus Allium. 3. the bulb of such a plant,… …   Universalium

• garlic clove — noun one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb • Syn: ↑clove • Hypernyms: ↑garlic, ↑ail …   Useful english dictionary

• 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

• garlic — [gär′lik] n. [ME garlek < OE garleac < gar, a spear (see GORE3) + leac, LEEK: from the spearlike leaves] 1. a bulbous herb (Allium sativum) of the lily family 2. the strong smelling bulb of this plant, made up of small sections called… …   English World dictionary

• Bulb — For other uses, see Bulb (disambiguation). Shallot bulbs …   Wikipedia

• garlic — gar•lic [[t]ˈgɑr lɪk[/t]] n. 1) pln a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family, having a strongly pungent bulb 2) pln the bulb of this plant, consisting of smaller bulbs, or cloves, used in cooking 3) the flavor or smell of this bulb… …   From formal English to slang

• bulb — bulbed, adj. bulbless, adj. /bulb/, n. 1. Bot. a. a usually subterranean and often globular bud having fleshy leaves emergent at the top and a stem reduced to a flat disk, rooting from the underside, as in the onion and lily. b. a plant growing… …   Universalium

• garlic — /ˈgalɪk / (say gahlik) noun 1. a hardy plant, Allium sativum, whose strong scented pungent bulb is used in cookery and medicine. 2. any of various other species of the same genus. 3. the bulb of any such plant. 4. → garlic sausage. –adjective 5.… …  

• bulb — 1. Any globular or fusiform structure. SYN: bulbus [TA]. 2. A short, vertical underground stem of plants, such as onion and garlic. [L. bulbus, a bulbous root] aortic b. [TA] the dilated first part of the aorta containing the aort …   Medical dictionary

• garlic — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ fresh ▪ raw ▪ wild ▪ roasted … OF GARLIC ▪ clove …   Collocations dictionary