garlic

244 1.0

A plant with a strong smell and taste whose bulb people use in cooking and sometimes for medicine

noun
/ˈɡɑːrlɪk/

: ajo

The smell of onion and garlic wafted in through the door from the kitchen.
onions and garlic
a clove of garlic
garlic sauce

Place it on top of the garlic there.

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Examples

After cooking it with garlic, oil, and chilies, he would then smear it on bread.

Academic text (1991)
She uses too much garlic in her pasta sauce.
Now we're going to add some pepper, some garlic and some onion.
Serve with basil-garlic sauce, cold or at room temperature, on top or on the side.

Academic text (2004)
Pork and beef, tomatoes, a lot of garlic and spaghetti.
You need prawns, you need garlic and you need chilli.

Cosmopolitan UK
Pan-fried with a little garlic and fennel.

S1m0ne (2002)
Tomatoes brushed with local olive oil, garlic and coriander.

Stay (2020)
Spaghetti with garlic bread.

Grandma's Boy (2006)
I love the flavor that garlic adds to roasted vegetables.

Synonyms

Allium sativum

vsgarlic

Specialized

3.9

A plant with a bulb and strong tasting cloves used in cooking and medicine

is the common everyday name rather than the scientific label

Compounds

garlic bread

9 1.0

A slice of bread spread with garlic butter and toasted until crisp

garlic clove

9 1.7

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

garlic sauce

4 1.0

A creamy dip or topping flavored mainly with garlic

garlic press

2 2.8

A small kitchen tool that squeezes garlic cloves into small pieces

garlic butter

2 1.4

Butter mixed with garlic that you put on bread or use in cooking

garlic salt

1 1.0

A mixture of ground garlic and salt used to add flavor to food

wild garlic

1 3.0

A strong-smelling plant with broad leaves that grows in woods and people use in cooking

Canada garlic

7.7

A wild onion with a strong garlic smell that grows in fields and woods

crow garlic

9.2

A wild plant like an onion with a strong, sharp smell

daffodil garlic

9.8

A small wild onion with clusters of white flowers from Mediterranean regions

false garlic

8.7

A wild plant that looks and smells like garlic but is not used in cooking

field garlic

6.1

A wild plant with a strong onion taste that grows in fields

Levant garlic

9.3

A large garlic plant with a big bulb and tall stalk bearing purple-tinged flowers

garlic chewer

7.8

A person who often eats garlic and has bad breath

garlic chive

3.5

A plant with flat leaves and a mild garlic taste used like chives in cooking

garlic mustard

6.1

A plant with green leaves that smell like garlic when crushed

giant garlic

2.9

A large vegetable like a leek with a mild garlic taste

hedge garlic

8.6

A wild plant whose leaves smell like garlic when crushed

keeled garlic

Specialized

9.9

A bulb plant from Europe and Asia with thin leaves and purple flower clusters like garlic

Naples garlic

Specialized

7.6

A small onion plant with white flower clusters often grown in gardens and used in cooking

Oriental garlic

6.0

A plant from eastern Asia like a large chive grown for its leaves and bulbs used for food

Spanish garlic

6.4

A European variety of leek with a mild taste used in cooking

stag's garlic

9.9

A wild plant with broad leaves and white flowers whose leaves smell like garlic and are edible

wood garlic

7.2

A wild plant with broad leaves that smell like garlic and grows in damp woods

How Pungent

wasabi

5 4.9

asafoetida

1 9.9

horseradish

16 3.9

garlic

244 1.0

cumin

22 3.2

paprika

20 2.5

Surface Forms

garlic singular

garlics plural

Etymology

The word garlic comes from Old English parts gar ('spear') and leac ('leek'), like the modern word leek, so it originally meant 'spear-leek' because a clove looks a little like a tiny spear. That's why garlic is the strong, sharp plant used in cooking.