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CLOVE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("clove" is a kind of...):

spice (any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food)

Holonyms ("clove" is a substance of...):

clove (aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb

Synonyms:

clove; garlic clove

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("clove" is a kind of...):

ail; garlic (aromatic bulb used as seasoning)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves

Synonyms:

clove; clove tree; Eugenia aromaticum; Eugenia caryophyllatum; Syzygium aromaticum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("clove" is a kind of...):

spice tree (tree bearing aromatic bark or berries)

Meronyms (parts of "clove"):

clove (aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice)

Holonyms ("clove" is a member of...):

genus Syzygium; Syzygium (a tropical evergreen tree of the myrtle family native to the East Indies but cultivated elsewhere)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("clove" is a kind of...):

flower bud (a bud from which only a flower or flowers develop)

Meronyms (substance of "clove"):

clove (spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground)

Holonyms ("clove" is a part of...):

clove; clove tree; Eugenia aromaticum; Eugenia caryophyllatum; Syzygium aromaticum (moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple of the verb cleave

Credits

 Context examples: 

“Yes,” said one, “that's Flint, sure enough. J. F., and a score below, with a clove hitch to it; so he done ever.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Also called clove cigarette.

(Kretek, NCI Dictionary)

She came up to me one evening, when I was very low, to ask (she being then afflicted with the disorder I have mentioned) if I could oblige her with a little tincture of cardamums mixed with rhubarb, and flavoured with seven drops of the essence of cloves, which was the best remedy for her complaint;—or, if I had not such a thing by me, with a little brandy, which was the next best.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When aloe/anise/ascorbic acid/clove/peppermint/spearmint/thyme-based mouthwash is used as a rinse, the ingredients in this agent may prevent or decrease inflammation and bacterial infections.This may prevent or inhibit radiotherapy- or chemotherapy-induced mucositis and decreases the pain associated with mucositis.

(Aloe/Anise/Ascorbic Acid/Clove/Peppermint/Spearmint/Thyme-based Mouthwash, NCI Thesaurus)

Smoking clove cigarettes can lead to nicotine addiction and can cause lung cancer and other lung conditions.

(Clove cigarette, NCI Dictionary)

Would you think it likely, now, that your squire would prove a liberal-minded one in case of help—him being in a clove hitch, as you remark?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)