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gar·lic

 (gär′lĭk)
n.
1. An onionlike plant (Allium sativum) of southern Europe having a bulb that breaks up into separable cloves with a strong distinctive odor and flavor.
2. The bulb of this plant.
tr.v. gar·licked, gar·lick·ing, gar·licks
To season or flavor (a food) with garlic.

[Middle English, from Old English gārlēac : gār, spear (probably in reference to the shape of a clove of garlic, resembling a spearhead, or to the shape of the leaves) + lēac, leek.]
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garlic

(ˈɡɑːlɪk)
n
1. (Plants) a hardy widely cultivated Asian alliaceous plant, Allium sativum, having a stem bearing whitish flowers and bulbils
2. (Cookery)
a. the bulb of this plant, made up of small segments (cloves) that have a strong odour and pungent taste and are used in cooking
b. (as modifier): a garlic taste.
3. (Plants) any of various other plants of the genus Allium
[Old English gārlēac, from gār spear + lēac leek]
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gar•lic

(ˈgɑr lɪk)

n.
1. a hardy plant, Allium sativum, of the amaryllis family, having a strongly pungent bulb.
2. the bulb of this plant, consisting of smaller bulbs, or cloves, used in cooking.
3. the flavor or smell of this bulb.
adj.
4. cooked, flavored, or seasoned with garlic: garlic bread; garlic salt.
[before 1000; Middle English garlec, Old English gārlēac (gar spear + lēac leek)]
gar′licked, gar′lick•y, adj.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.garlic - bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalizedgarlic - bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves
ail, garlic - aromatic bulb used as seasoning
alliaceous plant - bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odor
2.garlic - aromatic bulb used as seasoninggarlic - aromatic bulb used as seasoning  
flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, flavouring, seasoning, seasoner - something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts
garlic clove, clove - one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb
Allium sativum, garlic - bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves
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garlic

noun
Related words
adjective alliaceous
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Translations
чеснов лукчесън
česnek
hvidløg
ajlo
küüslauk
valkosipuli
češnjakbijeli luk
fokhagyma
hvítlaukur
ニンニク
마늘
allium
česnakas
ķiploks
usturoi
cesnak
česen
vitlök
kitunguu saumusomuthumu
กระเทียม
tỏi

garlic

[ˈgɑːlɪk]
A. Najo m
B. CPD garlic mayonnaise Nalioli m
garlic prawns Ngambas fpl al ajillo
garlic press Ntriturador m de ajo
garlic salt Nsal f de ajo
garlic sausage Nsalchichón m al ajo
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garlic

[ˈgɑːrlɪk] nail mgarlic bread npain m à l'ailgarlic crusher npresse-ail m inv
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garlic

nKnoblauch m

garlic

:
garlic bread
nKnoblauchbrot nt
garlic clove
garlic crusher

garlic

:
garlic mushrooms
pl fritierte Pilze mit Knoblauch
garlic press
garlic salt
nKnoblauchsalz nt
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garlic

[ˈgɑːlɪk] naglio
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garlic

(ˈgaːlik) noun
a plant with a bulb shaped like an onion, which has a strong taste and smell and is used in cooking. The sauce is flavoured with garlic.
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garlic

ثَوْم česnek hvidløg Knoblauch σκόρδο ajo valkosipuli ail češnjak aglio ニンニク 마늘 knoflook hvitløk czosnek alho чеснок vitlök กระเทียม sarımsak tỏi 蒜头
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gar·lic

n. ajo.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
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garlic

n ajo
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References in classic literature ?
"'Tis garlic! and I thought there wasn't a blade left in that mead!"
It was a most tedious business, not more than half a dozen shoots of garlic being discoverable in the whole field; yet such was the herb's pungency that probably one bite of it by one cow had been sufficient to season the whole dairy's produce for the day.
Come with me, friend John, and you shall help me deck the room with my garlic, which is all the war from Haarlem, where my friend Vanderpool raise herb in his glass houses all the year.
I then took cloves of garlic, though with a great aversion, both from the taste and smell.
Then, too, there was a meaty fisherman's stew, delicious with garlic, and crusty Italian bread without butter, and all washed down with pint mugs of thick and heady claret.
We may note the garlic and whisky on the breath of a fellow strap hanger, or the cheap perfume emanating from the person of the wondrous lady sitting in front of us, and deplore the fact of our sensitive noses; but, as a matter of fact, we cannot smell at all, our olfactory organs are practically atrophied, by comparison with the development of the sense among the beasts of the wild.
"Plenty of onions and garlic and a dash of red pepper.
He had often, with Baloo's help, robbed bees' nests in single trees, and he knew that the Little People hated the smell of wild garlic. So he gathered a small bundle of it, tied it up with a bark string, and then followed Won-tolla's blood-trail, as it ran southerly from the Lairs, for some five miles, looking at the trees with his head on one side, and chuckling as he looked.
See, I have thought about you -- look at the good breakfast we are going to have; nothing but what you are fond of." Andrea, indeed, inhaled the scent of something cooking which was not unwelcome to him, hungry as he was; it was that mixture of fat and garlic peculiar to provincial kitchens of an inferior order, added to that of dried fish, and above all, the pungent smell of musk and cloves.
``that he would fight a dozen such men as Front-de-B uf, if, by so doing, he could hasten his departure from a dungeon where they put so much garlic into their pottage.'' Notwithstanding this intimation of a relapse into the apathy of sensuality, Cedric placed himself opposite to Athelstane, and soon showed, that if the distresses of his country could banish the recollection of food while the table was uncovered, yet no sooner were the victuals put there, than he proved that the appetite of his Saxon ancestors had descended to him along with their other qualities.
For I must tell thee, Sancho, that when I approached to put Dulcinea upon her hackney (as thou sayest it was, though to me it appeared a she-ass), she gave me a whiff of raw garlic that made my head reel, and poisoned my very heart."
They had large hands, large feet, large mouths; they had pug noses as a general thing, and moustaches that not even good breeding could overlook; they combed their hair straight back without parting; they were ill-shaped, they were not winning, they were not graceful; I knew by their looks that they ate garlic and onions; and lastly and finally, to my thinking it would be base flattery to call them immoral.