Naples garlic
- noun
- Specialized
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ajo napolitano
- Naples garlic is often grown in gardens for its attractive clusters of small white flowers.
Examples
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Many Mediterranean dishes feature Naples garlic for its delicate flavor and decorative blooms.
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The leaves of Naples garlic can be used as a mild herb in salads or soups.
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I love using Naples garlic in my pasta dishes.
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Have you ever tried Naples garlic in a salad?
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Naples garlic is often grown in gardens for its attractive clusters of small white flowers.
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Many Mediterranean dishes feature Naples garlic for its delicate flavor and decorative blooms.
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The leaves of Naples garlic can be used as a mild herb in salads or soups.
Synonyms
A small onion-like perennial plant with clusters of white star-shaped flowers
A small wild onion with clusters of white flowers from Mediterranean regions
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward place–product compound: a B1 learner who knows 'Naples' and 'garlic' will naturally understand it as a type or variety of garlic associated with Naples. Naming foods or varieties after places is cross-linguistically common, so the general meaning is transparently derivable even if the precise botanical species name is unfamiliar.
Etymology
Naples garlic gets its name from the city of Naples because this small wild onion was often found around that area and it smells like garlic. So the name simply means 'a kind of wild garlic from Naples', which explains why we use it for the plant today.
