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Word: clove (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
  • An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
  • Any one of the separate bulbs that make up the larger bulb of garlic
  • A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
  • botany The tree Eugenia aromatica syn. Caryophyllus aromatica, native of the Moluccas (Indonesian islands)which produces it

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Verb:

  • cleave

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