garlic clove

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsclove

   Broadergarlic

Questions about garlic clove

What does garlic clove mean?

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

What is another word for garlic clove?

Close synonyms include clove. 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 clove a common word?

garlic clove is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.