clove

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kləʊv/    美 /kloʊv/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree. countable,uncountable
  2. One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.
    — clove of garlic, garlic clove, clove of a sea-onion, clove of shallot, cloves of bulbs
  3. A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
  4. A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice. countable
  5. An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone. countable
    — Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+¹⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word cloves; it calls them ' claves or nails.' It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
动词 v.
  1. simple past of cleave form-of,past

词形变化

cloves plural cloves plural cloves plural

词汇关系

衍生词
clove camphor cloved clove gilliflower clove gillyflower cloveless clove lilli pilli clove pink cloveroot clovetree clovewort
相关词
cloy cloying

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English clove, from Old English clufu, from Proto-West Germanic *klubu, from Proto-Germanic *klubō, related to clēofan (“to cleave, split”), hence with the verbal etymology hereafter.
词源 3
Borrowed from Dutch klove (now kloof). Doublet of kloof.
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