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garlic (iou)



garlic noun.
[Old English garleac, from gar spear (with ref. to the cloves of the plant) + leac LEEK.]
A bulbous plant of the lily family, Allium sativum, grown as a herb; the strong-smelling pungent-tasting bulb of this plant (divisible into cloves or smaller bulbs) much used as a flavouring. Also (with specifying word), any of various wild plants of the genus Allium.
bear's garlic, crow garlic, field garlic, hedge-garlic, Spanish garlic, etc. wild garlic any of various wild alliums, esp. ramsons, Allium ursinum.
Attrib. & comb.: In the sense 'made with or containing garlic', as garlic butter, garlic sausage, etc. Special combs., as garlic bread: spread with garlic butter and heated; garlic-mustard a cruciferous plant, Alliaria petiolata, with white flowers and cordate leaves, common in shady places; also called hedge-garlic, Jack-by-the-hedge; garlic pear any of several tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Crateva, of the caper family, with a smell of garlic and pear-shaped fruit; garlic press a device for crushing a clove or cloves of garlic.
garlicky adjective smelling or tasting of garlic L18.