chive

C2+ Topic:Food & Drink
US /tʃaɪv/ UK /tʃaɪv/
noun

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    a slender herb of the onion family used to flavor food

    She snipped fresh chive over the buttered baked potato.

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Synonyms
1 noun · a slender herb of the onion... herbscallion
Word family
Related forms cive

Etymology

From Middle English cive, from Old French cive, from Latin cēpa ('onion').

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