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Rareclove
The correct spelling is clove.
How to pronounce clove
/kləʊv/
nounIPA: /kləʊv/
Say it like: Clo-ve
The correct spelling is clove. A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree. For example: "The wings cleaved the foggy air."
Usage Examples
“The wings cleaved the foggy air.”
“The truck cleaved a path through the ice.”
Meanings
noun
- 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.
- 4.Any one of the separate bulbs that make up the larger bulb of garlic.
- 5.A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
verb
- 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.To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
- 5.To split.
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