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   clove

   /kləʊv/

   noun

   • 1. the dried flower bud of a tropical tree, used as an aromatic spice: "a teaspoon of ground cloves"
   • ▪ aromatic analgesic oil extracted from cloves and used medicinally to relieve dental pain.
   • 2. the Indonesian tree from which cloves are obtained.
   • 3. a clove-scented pink which is the original type from which the carnation and other double pinks have been bred.

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French clou de girofle, literally ‘nail of gillyflower’ (from its shape), gillyflower being originally the name of the spice and later applied to the similarly scented pink.

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