daffodil garlic
- noun
- UK
:
ajo de narcisos
- She planted daffodil garlic for its beautiful white flowers and mild onion scent.
Examples
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The garden's spring blooms included tulips, hyacinths, and daffodil garlic along the border.
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In Mediterranean cuisine, young shoots of daffodil garlic are sometimes used as a garnish.
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The daffodil garlic blooms beautifully in spring.
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I love the smell of daffodil garlic in the garden.
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In Mediterranean cuisine, young shoots of daffodil garlic are sometimes used as a garnish.
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She planted daffodil garlic for its beautiful white flowers and mild onion scent.
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The garden's spring blooms included tulips, hyacinths, and daffodil garlic along the border.
Synonyms
A small onion-like perennial plant with clusters of white star-shaped flowers
A small onion plant with white flower clusters often grown in gardens and used in cooking
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines two concrete nouns so its meaning — an Allium (garlic) that has daffodil-like flowers — is directly inferable from 'daffodil' (a flower) + 'garlic' (an onion-like plant). This noun–noun compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should understand the referent without prior exposure.
Etymology
Daffodil garlic may get its name from the way it looks: it has small groups of white flowers that remind people of tiny daffodil flowers, and its leaves and bulbs smell faintly of garlic. So the name helps you remember it is a 'wild onion' with a 'mild garlic smell'.
