cloves
Meaning of cloves
- the dried flower bud of a tropical tree, used as an aromatic spice.
a teaspoon of ground cloves
- the Indonesian tree from which cloves are obtained.
- a clove-scented pink which is the original type from which the carnation and other double pinks have been bred.
Middle English: from Old French clou de girofle, literally ‘nail of gillyflower’ (from its shape), gillyflower being originally the name of the spice and later applied to the similarly scented pink.
plural noun- any of the small bulbs making up a compound bulb of garlic, shallot, etc.
rub a dish with a crushed clove of garlic
Old English clufu, of Germanic origin, corresponding to the first element of German Knoblauch (altered from Old High German klovolouh ), and the base of cleave1.
Information about cloves
CatalanHyphenation of cloves
cloves
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- cloves is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of cloves
Words that rhyme with cloves
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