Garlic
Garlic , noun
[Old English garlek, Anglo-Saxon gārleác; gar spear, lance + leác leek. See Gar, n., and Leek.]
1.
(Botany) A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.
2.
A kind of jig or farce. [Obsolete] — Taylor (1630)
Collocations (2)
Garlic mustard , a European plant of the Mustard family (Alliaria officinalis) which has a strong smell of garlic.
Garlic pear tree , a tree in Jamaica (Cratava gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.