noun. An evergreen tree (Syzygium aromaticum) native to the Moluccas and widely cultivated as a source of oil and for its aromatic dried flower buds.

noun. A flower bud of this plant, used whole or ground as a spice.

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noun. One of the small sections of a separable bulb, as that of garlic.

noun. One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a mother bulb, as in garlic.

noun. Preterit, and formerly sometimes (for cloven, to which the o in pret. clove is due) past participle, of cleave.

noun. In England, a weight of cheese, etc. A statute of 1430 makes the clove equal to 7 pounds.

noun. A ravine or rocky fissure; a gorge: as, the Kaaterskill clove in the Catskill mountains.

noun. A very pungent aromatic spice, the dried flower-buds of Eugenia caryophyllata, of the natural order Myrtaccæ, originally of the Moluccas, but now cultivated in Zanzibar, the West Indies, Brazil, and other tropical regions. The tree is a handsome evergreen, from 15 to 30 feet high, with large, elliptic, smooth leaves and numerous purplish flowers on jointed stalks. Every part of the plant abounds in the volatile oil for which the flower-buds are prized. Cloves are very largely used as a spice, and in medicine for their stimulant and aromatic properties.

noun. The tree which bears cloves.

noun. [F. clou, a nail: see etym.] A long spike-nail.

noun. A cleft; an opening: as, the clove in the roving-carriage of a cotton-jenny.

imperative. Cleft.

imperative. See under Hitch.

imperative. an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook.

noun. A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name.

noun. A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia aromatica syn. Caryophullus aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles.

noun. See Eugenin.

noun. any fragrant self-colored carnation.

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noun. One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic.

noun. A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds.

verb. Simple past of cleave.

noun. A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch

noun. Any one of the separate bulbs that make up the larger bulb of garlic

noun. A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

noun. The tree Eugenia aromatica (syn. Caryophyllus aromatica), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands) which produces the spice.

noun. An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.

noun. aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice

noun. spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground

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

noun. one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb

"The term clove bark has been applied to the barks of two different trees belonging to the natural order _Laurineæ_."

mother cloves  oil of cloves  royal clove  wild clove  

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