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clove

clove

17 3.0
A small dried bud with a strong warm smell used to flavor food
  • noun
  • /kloʊv/
translation icon : clavo de olor
  • Make your own tasty apple cider with cloves, cinnamon sticks, and real maple syrup.

And those herbs like ginger, doing those as herbal teas or in your food, warming herbs like ginger, garlic, cinnamon, clove, very good for thyroid health.

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Examples

  • In a medium saucepan, combine the water, apple juice, orange juice, cloves, sugar, cardamom, cinnamon, and fennel.

    Blog text (1)
  • I love that you used cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg in your bread.

    Blog text (22)
  • There are some with the cinnamon and clove and some that are just plain.

  • Then, a pinch of ground clove and a generous amount of cinnamon.

  • The air was hot and soft, carrying the scent of cloves and fried banana everywhere we went.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Mulled wine, heavy on the cinnamon and light on the cloves.

  • She'd diced extra cloves and dropped them into the stew.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Mix the onion, garlic, cloves, salt, pepper, and vinegar in a large bowl.

    Academic text (1990)
  • I had stewed spareribs with cloves, ginger, and fresh acacia honey.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • To enhance the flavor of the dish, add a pinch of clove along with the other spices.

Synonyms

spice
vsclove
126 1.0

A plant part like pepper or cinnamon used to add strong flavor to food

is a specific dried aromatic flower bud used for cooking and baking

Compounds

9 1.7

A small part of a garlic bulb covered in thin dry skin used in cooking

4 3.9

An oil made from cloves used for flavor, smell, and easing toothache

clove hitch
  • Specialized
1 8.5

A knot to fasten a rope to a post that is quick to tie and untie

Smelling of cloves

A garden flower with many petals and a spicy clove smell

An evergreen tropical tree that makes small brown flower buds used as a spice and in medicine

How Aromatic

clove
17 3.0
galingale
  • Specialized
9.9
ginger
94 1.0

Surface Forms

clove singular
cloves plural

Etymology

Clove (the spice) comes from an old word meaning 'nail' because each dried flower bud looks like a tiny nail, and that shape is why people called the spice a 'clove'.