Definizione monolingua

clove

clove

1. Simple past of cleave.

clove (plural cloves)

1. A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
2. (botany) The tree Eugenia aromatica syn. Caryophyllus aromatica, native of the Moluccas (Indonesian islands) which produces it
3. An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
   • 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202.

     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.

   • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 169:

     By a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts.

Definizione dizionario clove

	chiodo di garofano
	spice

	spicchio
	constitutive bulb of garlic

albero da garofani

eugenia caryophyllata

pass. di to cleave

Altri significati:

Any one of the separate bulbs that make up the larger bulb of garlic

A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

Simple past of cleave.

An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.

(botany) The tree '''Eugenia aromatica''' syn. '''Caryophyllus aromatica''' , native of the Moluccas (Indonesian islands)which produces it

A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch

The aromatic flower bud of a clove tree, used as a spice.