- Chinese chive
- noun Date: 1968 garlic chive — usually used in plural
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
Chinese chive
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Chinese chive — noun a plant of eastern Asia; larger than Allium schoenoprasum • Syn: ↑garlic chive, ↑Oriental garlic, ↑Allium tuberosum • Hypernyms: ↑alliaceous plant • Part Meronyms: ↑garlic chive … Useful english dictionary
garlic chive — noun 1. a plant of eastern Asia; larger than Allium schoenoprasum • Syn: ↑Chinese chive, ↑Oriental garlic, ↑Allium tuberosum • Hypernyms: ↑alliaceous plant 2. large flat leaves used as chive is used • Hypernyms … Useful english dictionary
garlic chive — noun Date: 1969 a perennial allium (Allium tuberosum) native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its garlic flavored stems, leaves, buds, and flower heads usually used in plural; called also Chinese chive … New Collegiate Dictionary
Northeastern Chinese cuisine — This article is part of the series … Wikipedia
garlic chive — noun a) A plant which has long, thin, white flowering stalks, related to chives. b) (in plural garlic chives) The garlic flavoured leaves of this plant used as a vegetable in cooking. Syn: Chinese chives … Wiktionary
Chinesechive — Chinese chive n. An eastern Asian herb (Allium tuberosum) having flat leaves, small white flowers, and elongated bulbs covered with a fibrous coat. Often used in the plural. Also called garlic chive, Oriental garlic. * * * … Universalium
alliaceous plant — noun bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odor • Hypernyms: ↑liliaceous plant • Hyponyms: ↑wild onion, ↑wild leek, ↑Levant garlic, ↑kurrat, ↑Allium ampeloprasum, ↑C … Useful english dictionary
Allium tuberosum — noun a plant of eastern Asia; larger than Allium schoenoprasum • Syn: ↑garlic chive, ↑Chinese chive, ↑Oriental garlic • Hypernyms: ↑alliaceous plant • Part Meronyms: ↑garlic chive … Useful english dictionary
Oriental garlic — noun a plant of eastern Asia; larger than Allium schoenoprasum • Syn: ↑garlic chive, ↑Chinese chive, ↑Allium tuberosum • Hypernyms: ↑alliaceous plant • Part Meronyms: ↑garlic chive … Useful english dictionary
garlicchive — garlic chive n. See Chinese chive. * * * … Universalium
