garlic

Meaning of garlic

noun

a strong-smelling pungent-tasting bulb, used as a flavouring in cooking and in herbal medicine.
garlic butter
the central Asian plant, closely related to the onion, which produces garlic.

Old English gārlēac, from gār ‘spear’ (because the shape of a clove resembles the head of a spear) + lēac ‘leek’.

Information about garlic

It is a name.
The plural form of garlic is: garlics.
Languages in which garlic is used:
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- English

Hyphenation of garlic

gar-lic

It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
garlic is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

garlic synonyms

Meaning ail:

Translation of garlic

French: chapon, ail, perdrix
Spanish: ajo
Italian: aglio
German: Knoblauch
Portuguese: alho

Words that rhyme with garlic

peelgarlic, philogarlic, pilgarlic, Merlic, Mitscherlic

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