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chives

chives

2.0
A small onion-like herb with long green leaves that adds a mild onion taste to food
  • noun
  • /tʃaɪvz/
translation icon : cebollino
  • Now we're going to be chopping some chives, everybody, because chives add so much flavour.

I bought chives but I feel like I got the wrong ones.

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Examples

  • But like, a fat baked potato with butter, sour cream, chives and salt?

  • We actually put Red Leicester grated cheese on ours with sour cream and chives and bacon bits or onion bits as well.

  • We're going to plant the chives here instead.

  • And then in the bottom bed, I am going to do some chives on half of the back.

  • Also added some chopped up chives and a can of chopped tomatoes.

  • So in this chicken teriyaki bowl there is rice, chicken edamame, broccoli chives and teriyaki sauce.

  • Chopped chives sprinkled on top of the soup give it a nice onion flavor.

  • I added some chives to the salad for extra taste and color.

  • You can mix chives with cream cheese for a delicious spread on bagels.

Synonyms

chive
vschives
16 2.6

A small herb with thin hollow leaves that adds a mild onion flavor to food

is the plural form used when referring to leaves or general use
Allium schoenoprasum
vschives
  • Specialized
7.4

A small onion-like plant with thin hollow green leaves used to add mild onion flavor to food

is the common everyday name rather than the technical species label

How Strong

garlic
244 1.0
onion
393 1.0
chives
2.0
green onion
  • US
12 1.1
parsley
58 1.0

Surface Forms

chives singular
chives plural

Morphology

chives = chive (transparent) = chive + s

The plural '-s' simply marks more than one of the herb 'chive', a transparent and regular inflection.

Etymology

Chives comes from an old French word cive, which meant 'onion'. So think of chives as 'little onions'; they are a small green member of the onion family and give a mild onion taste to food.