She put several cloves of garlic in the dish. 她在菜里放了几瓣大蒜。
The clove is in full bloom. 丁香盛开着。
"Come and talk to her, " said Mary, and she clove a way through the crowd, John following in her wake. "来和她谈谈吧,"玛丽说着,然后在人群中挤出一条路往前走,约翰紧随其后。
clove
[ noun ]
aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice
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moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves
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one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb
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spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground
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Cleave \Cleave\ (kl[=e]v), v. t. [imp. {Cleft} (kl[e^]ft), {Clave} (kl[=a]v, Obs.), {Clove} (kl[=o]v, Obsolescent); p. p. {Cleft}, {Cleaved} (kl[=e]vd) or {Cloven} (kl[=o]"v'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cleaving}.] [OE. cleoven, cleven, AS. cle['o]fan; akin to OS. klioban, D. klooven, G. klieben, Icel. klj[=u]fa, Sw. klyfva, Dan. kl["o]ve and prob. to Gr. gly`fein to carve, L. glubere to peel. Cf. {Cleft}.] 1. To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.
O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. --Shak.
2. To part or open naturally; to divide.
Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws. --Deut. xiv. 6.
Clove \Clove\, imp. of {Cleave}. Cleft. --Spenser.
{Clove hitch} (Naut.) See under {Hitch}.
{Clove hook} (Naut.), an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also {clip hook}. --Knight.
Clove \Clove\, n. [D. kloof. See {Cleave}, v. t.] A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove.
Clove \Clove\, n. [OE. clow, fr. F. clou nail, clou de girofle a clove, lit. nail of clove, fr. L. clavus nail, perh. akin to clavis key, E. clavicle. The clove was so called from its resemblance to a nail. So in D. kruidnagel clove, lit. herb-nail or spice-nail. Cf. {Cloy}.] A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree ({Eugenia aromatica} syn. {Caryophullus aromatica}), a native of the Molucca Isles.
{Clove camphor}. (Chem.) See {Eugenin}.
{Clove gillyflower}, {Clove pink} (Bot.), any fragrant self-colored carnation.
Clove \Clove\, n. [AS. clufe an ear of corn, a clove of garlic; cf. cle['o]fan to split, E. cleave.] 1. (Bot.) One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic.
Developing, in the axils of its skales, new bulbs, of what gardeners call cloves. --Lindley.
2. A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
The American Medical Association's law-making body began acting Tuesday on more than 100 reports and 200 resolutions, ranging from proposals to require health warnings in alcohol advertising to cautions about of clove cigarettes.
Mrs. Knarr expressed her devotion to the clove and her plans for fulfilling her reign.
The board is unable to repay central bank loans, and its success hinges on a reduction in Indonesian clove output.
Consensus among ministers and also with the president takes time. The privately-owned clove monopoly has received loans of Rp1,000bn from state banks but has been unable to service its debt.
Native Japanese scored poorly on clove and fruit punch.
In spicy shades of cinnamon, clove, curry, saffron and dill green, some of the safari jackets with saddlebag pockets had daring V-shaped decolletes.