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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
garlic
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clove of garlic
▪ a clove of garlic
garlic press
wild mushroom/garlic/rose etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
crushed
▪ Even more effective, I am told, is crushed garlic mixed with live yoghurt.
▪ Add a crushed clove of garlic but don't let it burn.
▪ Put the bread into a food processor with a crushed garlic clove and add a tablespoon or two of olive oil.
▪ Add the onion, crushed garlic, mushrooms, chives and red wine and season with salt and pepper.
fresh
▪ Choose healthy, fresh garlic with no blemishes.
▪ How delicious smelling, were the baskets of fresh garlic when the farmer brought them up from the valley.
▪ I take odourless garlic capsules because I assume that they carry the same benefits as fresh garlic.
▪ He would have preferred fresh garlic but there wasn't any.
olive
▪ With the fish in a large casserole, slowly add warm olive oil and garlic from one pot and cream from another.
▪ She wants to make her own flavored olive oil with garlic to use for cooking, salad dressings and such.
▪ It means that for your marinara sauce you have to have fresh basil, good olive oil and garlic.
saute
▪ Add remaining 2 tablespoons oil to pan and saute onion and garlic until lightly browned.
▪ Using the same pot, saute garlic, onion, carrot, and celery in remaining oil until lightly colored.
wild
▪ Each wild garlic blossom is carried on a half-round stem holding an umbel of 30 flowers.
▪ The sight and smell is as dizzying as the mathematics, as wild garlic time spins through the woods here.
▪ The hedgerows had begun to burgeon with violets, primroses, wild garlic and early pink campion.
■ NOUN
bread
▪ Their Chicken Kiev is delicious, and as for their garlic bread ... fabulous!
▪ There was a choice of vegetarian lasagne or lamb stew with baked potatoes, sweet corn and garlic bread.
▪ Close your eyes to that garlic bread literally squelching in butter!
▪ All dishes are served with a choice of garlic bread, jacket potato, new potatoes or french fries.
■ VERB
add
▪ Heat the oil in a large pan, add the onion and garlic and cook until soft. 3.
▪ Heat oil in wok. Add garlic and ginger and stir-fry until fragrant.
▪ Reheat the work or pan and add the garlic, ginger and onions and stir fry for 30 seconds.
▪ When hot, add the garlic and saute for one minute.
▪ Reduce heat and add garlic, herbs and wine, then stir.
▪ Add a second layer if necessary. Add the garlic and all the herbs, seeds and dried chiles.
▪ Heat oil in a pan and saut onions and leek for 2 mins. Add mushrooms and garlic.
▪ In a saucepan, heat oil. Add shallots and garlic cloves and saute until lightly browned.
chop
▪ Saute a selection of mushrooms with butter and chopped shallots and garlic.
▪ Add chopped carrots and garlic and cook 2 minutes.
▪ Add chopped garlic and cook until golden brown.
cook
▪ Heat oil in cooker. Cook leeks and garlic over medium-high heat, stirring frequently, for 1 minute.
▪ Meanwhile, as the potatoes cook, add the garlic to the pot of simmering water and cook for 2 minutes.
crush
▪ Add the crushed garlic, tomatoes, tomato puree, courgette, sugar and lemon juice and simmer for 15 minutes.
▪ Allow to drain. Crush garlic with salt and mix with walnut meats and cayenne to taste.
fry
▪ Heat the oil in a large pan and gently fry the onion and garlic for 5 minutes.
▪ Top with mozzarella cheese and top the cheese with fried garlic slices.
▪ Gently fry onions, garlic and celery in a frying pan. 2.
▪ In a wide pan fry the butter, garlic, rosemary and crushed peppercorns.
mince
▪ Mix minced garlic, scallions and salt together in a small bowl.
▪ Remove duck pieces with a slotted utensil and set aside. Mince remaining garlic clove.
roast
▪ There are four flavours to choose from-original, roasted garlic, pesto and sun-dried tomato.
▪ And the bed of roasted garlic risotto on which the chicken rests is creamy and satisfying.
slice
▪ Set patties aside. Slice the garlic cloves into thin strips and fry in the remaining olive oil.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A dunk into that aforementioned garlic butter sauce is highly recommended.
▪ But be forewarned: The garlic quotient of this dish could be considered daunting.
▪ Every spice, every piece of garlic or onion is expected to disappear in the gravy.
▪ Good job I remembered the garlic press.
▪ Heat chicken stock with peeled and finely shredded garlic cloves.
▪ To get rid of garlic breath try strong coffee, cloves, honey, yogurt, or parsley.
▪ To relieve catarrh, chew raw garlic.
▪ You could also drop mothballs or peeled garlic cloves or sprinkle hot pepper into the tunnels.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Garlic

Garlic \Gar"lic\, n. [OE. garlek, AS. g[=a]rle['a]c; gar spear, lance + le['a]c leek. See Gar, n., and Leek.]

  1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Allium ( A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.

  2. A kind of jig or farce. [Obs.]
    --Taylor (1630).

    Garlic mustard, a European plant of the Mustard family ( Alliaria officinalis) which has a strong smell of garlic.

    Garlic pear tree, a tree in Jamaica ( Crat[ae]va gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
garlic

Middle English garlek, from Old English garlec (West Saxon), garleac (Mercian), "garlic," from gar "spear" (in reference to the clove), see gar, + leac "leek" (see leek). Garlic-bread is from 1958.

Wiktionary
garlic

n. A plant, ''Allium sativum'', related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.

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WordNet
garlic

  1. n. bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves [syn: Allium sativum]

  2. aromatic bulb used as seasoning [syn: ail]

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Wikipedia
Garlic

Allium sativum, commonly known as garlic, is a species in the onion genus, Allium.

Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, and rakkyo. With a history of human consumption and use of over 7,000 years, garlic is native to central Asia, and has long been a staple in the Mediterranean region, as well as a frequent seasoning in Asia, Africa, and Europe. It was known to Ancient Egyptians, and has been used both for food flavoring and traditional medicine.

Garlic (disambiguation)

Garlic (Allium sativum) is an herb.

Garlic may also refer to:

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Usage examples of "garlic".

Start with a thin-crust pizza, fried calamari with spicy lemon aioli, a cheese plate, or the signature fig and arugula salad, move on to braised pot roast with mashed potatoes and vegetables or mussels in a garlic, leek, and tarragon sauce with fries, and finish with a chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream.

And it was an outlandish idea, akh was a compound made of the hottest peppers, the strongest garlic, and a brew of aged fish stock.

Lycopene, folate, and perhaps selenium, found in tomato products and garlic have anticancer properties.

I immediately work out a tasty pesto-tomato bruschette, quesadilla with garlic chicken, green chile enchiladas, a chili-stuffed steak, arroz verde and a nice quasi-Mexican cinnamon-sugared tortilla cup in which to serve ice cream.

We served an appetizer of jalapeno mango-lime ice, vinegar steamed crab legs and spinach salad with asiago garlic dressing.

In a small saucepan, bring 1 cup of Barolo to the boil, add the garlic, and simmer for 2 minutes.

Then we went back to the Blowfish, which blazed with light and cast a heavenly garlic smell across the water.

Jonathan spent the rest of the day at market, trading cheeses for cabbages and hams and mushrooms and nets of onions and garlic.

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.

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.

Tony is a short, swarthy Cypriot who wears expensive suits and smells of garlic.

Ketchup is nothing more or less than a cold, thick, bright crimson, sweet, spicy, acidic, cooked, and strained tomato sauce made with vinegar, sugar, and salt, and flavored with onion or garlic and spices such as cinnamon, cloves, mace, allspice, nutmeg, ginger, and cayenne.