garlic

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A plant with a strong-tasting bulb, used to add flavour to food.

   She added two cloves of garlic to the tomato sauce.

2. 2
   verb

   To add garlic to food for flavour.

   He garlicked the bread before putting it in the oven.

Common collocations

• garlic clove Noun + noun

Inherited from Middle English garlek, garlik, from Old English gārlēac (“garlic”, literally “spear-leek”), from gār ("spear"; in reference to its sharp, tapering leaves) + lēac (“leek”). Cognate with Scots garlic (“garlic”), Faroese geirleykur (“garlic”), Icelandic geirlaukur (“garlic”).

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