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clove (root: cleave)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun clove has 4 senses
- clove(n = noun.plant) Array - aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice; Array is a part of clove, clove tree, eugenia aromaticum, eugenia caryophyllatum, syzygium aromaticum
- clove(n = noun.plant) clove tree, eugenia aromaticum, eugenia caryophyllatum, syzygium aromaticum - moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves; Array is a member of genus syzygium, syzygium
- clove(n = noun.food) garlic clove - one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb; Array is a kind of ail, garlic
- clove(n = noun.food) Array - spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground; Array is a kind of spice
is a kind of flower bud
has parts: clove
is a kind of spice tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
clove, imp.
Cleft. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove. [1913 Webster]
clove, n. [OE. clow, fr. F. clou nail, clou de girofle a clove, lit. nail of clove, fr. L. clavus nail, perh. akin to clavis key, E. clavicle. The clove was so called from its resemblance to a nail. So in D. kruidnagel clove, lit. herb-nail or spice-nail. Cf. Cloy.].
A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia aromatica syn. Caryophullus aromatica ), a native of the Molucca Isles. [1913 Webster]
clove, n. [AS. clufe an ear of corn, a clove of garlic; cf. cleófan to split, E. cleave.].
- 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 of its skales, new bulbs, of what gardeners call cloves." [1913 Webster]
- A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds. Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
clove, n.
1 a a dried flower-bud of a tropical plant, Eugenia aromatica, used as a pungent aromatic spice. b this plant.
2 (in full clove gillyflower or clove pink) a clove-scented pink, Dianthus caryophyllus, the original of the carnation and other double pinks.
1 a a dried flower-bud of a tropical plant, Eugenia aromatica, used as a pungent aromatic spice. b this plant.
2 (in full clove gillyflower or clove pink) a clove-scented pink, Dianthus caryophyllus, the original of the carnation and other double pinks.
clove, n. any of the small bulbs making up a compound bulb of garlic, shallot, etc.
clove, past of CLEAVE(1).
ROGET THESAURUS
clove
Interval
N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.
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