CLOVE
What does "CLOVE" mean?
The dried aromatic flower bud of a tropical tree, used whole or ground as a pungent spice.
Meanings
- A dried unopened flower bud used as a strong, warm spice. She pressed a few cloves into the ham before roasting it.
- One of the small separable segments of a bulb of garlic. The recipe calls for three cloves of garlic, minced fine.
- Past tense of 'cleave' meaning to split or to cling. The axe clove the log in a single stroke. archaic
Did you know?
- The spice clove is literally an unopened flower: each one is the dried, never-bloomed bud of the tree Syzygium aromaticum, picked before it can open.
Word origin
From Latin 'clavus' (nail), via Old French 'clou de girofle' (nail of the clove tree), since the dried bud resembles a small nail.
Remember it
A CLOVE looks like a tiny nail - and the word traces back to Latin 'clavus,' meaning nail.
A little poem
A bud that never
bloomed - dried hard as a small nail,
it sweetens the ham.
haiku
What it teaches
Sometimes the most concentrated flavor comes from a thing that was picked before it ever bloomed.
Quick facts
What does CLOVE mean?
The dried aromatic flower bud of a tropical tree, used whole or ground as a pungent spice.
Is CLOVE a valid word?
Yes — CLOVE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CLOVE?
CLOVE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CLOVE come from?
From Latin 'clavus' (nail), via Old French 'clou de girofle' (nail of the clove tree), since the dried bud resembles a small nail.
What can CLOVE teach us?
Sometimes the most concentrated flavor comes from a thing that was picked before it ever bloomed.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.