garlic

garlic
noun
[mass noun]
  1. a strong-smelling pungent-tasting bulb, used as a flavouring in cookery and in herbal medicine
    大蒜头
  2. the central Asian plant, closely related to the onion, which produces this bulb
    大蒜,蒜
  3. Allium sativum, family Liliaceae (or Alliaceae)
    拉丁名Allium sativum,百合科(或葱科)
    ■used in names of plants with a similar smell or flavour, e.g. hedge garlic, wild garlic
    用于有相似气味的植物名中,如 hedge garlic, wild garlic
派生
garlicky
adjective
语源
  1. Old English gārlēac, from gār 'spear' (because the shape of a clove resembles the head of a spear) + lēac 'leek'
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