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Word: Clove
Speech Type: Noun
Middle English: from Old French clou de girofle, literally ‘nail of gillyflower’ (from its shape), gillyflower being originally the name of the spice and later applied to the similarly scented pink
kləʊv
the dried flower bud of a tropical tree, used as an aromatic spice
Short Definition:spice
Examples:- a teaspoon of ground cloves
the Indonesian tree from which cloves are obtained.
Short Definition:tree
a clove-scented pink which is the original type from which the carnation and other double pinks have been bred.
Short Definition:clove-scented flower
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