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| clove [ klōv ] (plural cloves) |
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1. aromatic spice: a dried aromatic flower bud. Use: as a spice.
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2. spice-yielding tropical tree: an evergreen tree with flower buds that are used dried as a spice and other parts that yield aromatic oil of cloves. Native to: the Moluccas. Latin name Syzgium aromaticum.
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| [12th century. < Old French clou (de girofle) "nail (of the clove tree)" < Latin clavus "nail"; from the resemblance of a clove-tree bud to a nail] |
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