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Dried flower bud used as a spice
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clove
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A clove is the aromatic dried flower bud of a tree in the family Myrtaceae. Clove may also refer to: Garlic clove , a segment of a bulb (head) of garlic Clove (weight) , an old English unit of weight Clove (ship) , a ship captained by John Saris Clove Brook ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dried flowerbud of a certain tropical tree, used as a spice, late 15c., earlier clowes (14c.), from Anglo-French clowes de gilofre (c.1200), Old French clou de girofle "nail of gillyflower," so called from its shape, from Latin clavus "a nail" (see slot ...
Usage examples of clove.
Pete was still gaping at him in surprise when Adonis clove his head from his shoulders.
There, listening to Bauhaus and smoking clove cigarettes, he felt less alone than before.
The most common spices are star anise, fennel seed, cinnamon, cloves, licorice root, fagara, and ginger.
Using six or eight garlic cloves is not uncommon in a small dish, when balanced by a substantial portion of ginger.
Chop one of the onions, mince 2 garlic cloves, and add to the pot with the salt and ground ginger.
Add the shredded red chilis, the fresh ginger shreds, the lime peel, the garlic cloves, and the onions, and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes until the onions are translucent, and just starting to brown.
Insert 2 or 3 garlic and ginger slivers in each hole, and poke the cloves into the meat at evenly spaced intervals.
Opening her reticule, she took out a packet of cloves, removed one, then put it in her mouth to chew.
With a scrape of his chair, he stood and waited for her to rise, so she made a show of drawing on her gloves, then removing her packet of cloves from her pocket.
It had taken all his will to watch her leave, and her scent still lingered, fragrant with cloves and honey water.
Warm steam, fragrant with eucalyptus and cloves, curled under the closed door and licked at my bare legs.
He held a fly whisk and moved it languidly from side to side to keep the flies from the little bags of cloves, nutmeg, mastic and cinnamon and the little glasses of laurel and myrtle oil.
Grabusa a shipload of cinnamon, cloves and musk-nuts, so that the whole of Crete had a sweet scent.
Desperate housewives have peeled and slit garlic cloves to release the odour, then put them in drawers, under cabinets and along baseboards all over the kitchen with some success as long as the odour lasts - about two weeks.
In the spice shop she crushed leaves of sage and oregano in the palms of her hands for the pure pleasure of smelling them, and bought a handful of cloves, another of star anise, and one each of ginger root and juniper, and she walked away with tears of laughter in her eyes because the smell of the cayenne pepper made her sneeze so much.