clove

Meaning

1. A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
2. A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
3. An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.

clove tree

garlic clove

Syzygium aromaticum

Eugenia aromaticum

Eugenia caryophyllatum

clove-tree

Eugenia aromaticam

caryophyllus aromaticus

eugenia aromatica

eugenia caryophyllata

eugenia caryophyllus

clove-gillyflower

the clove-tree

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kləʊv/

From Middle English clove, an alteration of earlier clowe, borrowed from the first component of Old French clou (de girofle) (modern French clou de girofle), from Latin clāvus (“nail”) for its shape. Also see clāva (“knotty branch, club”). Doublet of clou and clavus.

Cognate with French

clou de girofle

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cleave

1. To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
2. To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
3. To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
4. (chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
5. To split.
6. Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.