garlic chive

Questions about garlic chive

What does garlic chive mean?

garlic chive means "a plant of eastern Asia; larger than Allium schoenoprasum". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for garlic chive?

Close synonyms include Chinese chive, Oriental garlic, Allium tuberosum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garlic chive a common word?

garlic chive is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.