a strong-smelling pungent-tasting bulb, used as a flavouring in cookery and in herbal medicine 大蒜头
the central Asian plant, closely related to the onion, which produces this bulb 大蒜,蒜
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
Old English gārlēac, from gār 'spear' (because the shape of a clove resembles the head of a spear) + lēac 'leek'