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Definition of 'clove' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) clove
the dried flower bud of a tropical tree, Syzygium aromaticum, of the myrtle family, used whole or ground as a spice.

2.  clove
the tree itself.

3. (n.) clove
one of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a mother bulb, as in garlic.

Etymology:  (bef. 1000; ME; OE clufu bulb (c. MD clōve; cf. OS

Definition of 'clove' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) clove
aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice

2. (noun) clove, clove tree, Syzygium aromaticum, Eugenia aromaticum, Eugenia caryophyllatum
moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves

3. (noun) clove, garlic clove
one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb

4. (noun) clove
spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground


Definition of 'clove' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) clove
a very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia, / Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles

2. (noun) clove
one of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic

3. (noun) clove
a weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds

4.  clove
of Cleave

5.  clove
cleft

6. (verb) clove
a cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove


Translation of 'clove' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the flower bud of a tropical tree dried for use as a spice.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: naeltjie Arabic flag Arabic: قُرُنْفُل Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: карамфил
Brazilian flag Brazilian: cravo Czech flag Czech: hřebíček German flag German: die Gewürznelke
Danish flag Danish: nellike Greek flag Greek: γαρίφαλο Spanish flag Spanish: clavo
Estonian flag Estonian: nelk Farsi flag Farsi: شکوفۀ میخک Finnish flag Finnish: mausteneilikka
French flag French: clou de girofle Hebrew flag Hebrew: צִפוֹרֶן @@@צִיפוֹרֶן$$$ Hindi flag Hindi: लौंग
Croatian flag Croatian: klinčić Hungarian flag Hungarian: szegfűszeg Indonesian flag Indonesian: cengkih
Icelandic flag Icelandic: negull, negulnagli Italian flag Italian: chiodo di garofano* Japanese flag Japanese: ちょうじ
Korean flag Korean: 정향 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: gvazdikas Latvian flag Latvian: krustnagliņa
Malay flag Malay: pokok bunga cenkih Dutch flag Dutch: kruidnagel Norwegian flag Norwegian: nellik
Polish flag Polish: goździk Persian flag Persian: شکوفۀ میخک Pashto flag Pashto: لونګ، په لرې ختيز كې يو ډ
Portuguese flag Portuguese: cravo Romanian flag Romanian: cuişoare Russian flag Russian: гвоздика
Slovak flag Slovak: klinček Slovenian flag Slovenian: klinček Serbian flag Serbian: karanfilić
Swedish flag Swedish: kryddnejlika Thai flag Thai: กานพลู Turkish flag Turkish: karanfil
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 丁香 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: гвоздика Urdu flag Urdu: لونگ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: cây đinh hương Chinese flag Chinese: 丁香

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