Garlic

Definitions: Garlic

Garlic

Noun

1. Bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves.

2. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.

Date "garlic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Garlic

Domain	Definitions
19th Century Satire	From Grk. gar, for, and Lat. liceor, to bid. Good for the biddies. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Bible	Garlic (Heb. shum, from its strong odour), mentioned only once (Num. 11:5). The garlic common in Eastern countries is the Allium sativum or Allium Ascalonicum, so called from its having been brought into Europe from Ascalon by the Crusaders. It is now known by the name of "shallot" or "eschalot." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
	To eat garlic in your dreams, denotes that you will take a sensible view of life and leave its ideals to take care of themselves. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Food & Agriculture	A member of the lily family, garlic is a cousin to leeks, chives, onions and shallots. The edible bulb, or head, grows below the ground. The bulb is made up of sections, called cloves, each encased in its own parchment-like skin. In Middle Eastern and Mediterranean countries, as well as India and China, garlic is an indispensable cooking ingredient. The flavor mellows when cooked. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Garlic

Synonym: ail (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Garlic

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Condiment	Salt; mustard, grey poupon mustard; pepper, black pepper, white pepper, peppercorn, curry, sauce piquante; caviare, onion, garlic, pickle; achar, allspice; bell pepper, Jamaica pepper, green pepper; chutney; cubeb, pimento.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Garlic

English words defined with "garlic": aioli, aioli sauce, alliaceous, Alliaria officinalis, Allium ♦ Belgian beef stew, bouillabaisse ♦ Canada garlic, carbonnade flamande, chili powder, chop suey, clove, crow garlic, Curry powder ♦ daffodil garlic, disguise ♦ escargot ♦ false garlic, field garlic, French dressing ♦ garlic bread, garlic butter, garlic chive, garlic clove, garlic mustard, Garlic pear tree, garlic press, garlic salt, garlic sauce, garlicky, genus Allium, giant garlic ♦ half-and-half dressing, hedge garlic ♦ Italian dressing ♦ jack-by-the-hedge ♦ keeled garlic ♦ Levant garlic ♦ marinara, Mercaptan, Moly ♦ Naples garlic ♦ Odmyl, Oenanthylidene, Oriental garlic ♦ permeant, permeating, permeative, pervasive, Poor man's treacle ♦ Ramson ♦ sauce vinaigrette, sauce-alone, scampi, snail, snail butter, Spanish garlic, stag's garlic ♦ Thialol, tree onion ♦ Valylene, vinaigrette ♦ wild garlic, wood garlic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "garlic": bulb fingers ♦ fingertip fissured dermatitis ♦ lettuce ♦ MIXER, CHILI POWDER ♦ ONION ♦ Pilgarlio, Portuguese ♦ Refreshments ♦ taste of onions or garlic, tulip eczema, tulip finger. (references)

Etymologies containing "garlic": Allium, Allyl ♦ Scorodite. (references)

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Modern Usage: Garlic

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Would sir care for a starter of some garlic bread perhaps? (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) Especially not one who attacks downwind and reeks of garlic. (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; writing credit: Pen Densham and John Watson.) Was that you? Must've been. Anchovies, sausage, mushrooms, garlic and green peppers. (Manhattan; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) Forget everything you seen in the movies: crosses don't work; they don't turn into bats, and garlic? You stand there with garlic around you neck, they're gonna take a walk up your estrada chocolata while sucking the blood outta ya. If you wanna kill a vampire, you drive a stake right through his heart; sunlight turns 'em into crispy critters. (Vampires; writing credit: Don Jakoby) What do you want me to do, cook you up a pot of Rag�? You want me to sweat garlic for you? Huh? Sing an opera? (Running Scared; writing credit: Gary DeVore; Jimmy Huston)
Movie/TV Titles	Garlic and Lemon on Bread Oil (1995) Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic (1978)
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Commercial Usage: Garlic

Domain	Title
References	The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Garlic Bread Appetisers and Dips (reference) The World Market for Fresh or Chilled Garlic, Leeks, and Alliaceous Vegetables: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm (reference) The Garlic Cure (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Dragon Ball Z - Garlic Jr. - Black Water Mist (reference) Dragonball Z, Vol. 29: Garlic Jr. Black Water Mist (Uncut) (reference) Dragonball Z, Vol. 30 - Garlic Jr.: Vanquished (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Pianos With Braces - Garlic & Galouises [IMPORT] (reference) Bulbous Garlic Blues (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	R�sle Garlic Press (reference) W�sthof Garlic Press (reference) Zyliss Susi DeLuxe Garlic Press (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
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Image Slideshow: Garlic

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Photo Album: Garlic

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Garlic.Credit: USDA.
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Use in Literature: Garlic

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Then she fumbled in a drawer where there were some pennies, pepper, and garlic.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The myriads who built the pyramids to be the tombs of the Pharaohs were fed on garlic, and it may be were not decently buried themselves.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Garlic

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Oils infused with garlic or herbs should be refrigerated. (references)
		Other vehicles of transmission include homemade salsa, baked potatoes cooked in aluminum foil, cheese sauce, garlic in oil, and traditionally prepared salted or fermented fish in Alaska. (references)
		Preparations that have been claimed to have benefit to CFS patients include astralagus, borage seed oil, bromelain, comfrey, echinacea, garlic, Ginkgo biloba, ginseng, primrose oil, quercetin, St. John's wort, and Shiitake mushroom extract. (references)
Business		Merck also owns Hofels, a leading brand in the garlic supplement market, and New Era, the leading brand of natural, homeopathic remedies. (references)
		Those standard products can be manufactured with simple notification to KFDA. As non-vitamin ingredients, only ginseng and garlic are listed as standards. (references)
		Certain simple herbals -- such as ginger, garlic, and ginseng � may be sold as non-medicinal supplements as long as they do not claim to treat or prevent disease. (references)
Economic History	Niger	Cowpeas and onions are grown for commercial export, as are small quantities of garlic, peppers, potatoes, and wheat. (references)
	Jamaica	Garlic and onions will also remain competitive since local production is done on a limited scale and quality is inferior to imports in terms of required size and shelf life. (references)
	Pakistan	The major crops are wheat, cotton, rice, sugarcane, gram, corn, sorghum, barley, rape seed and mustard and tobacco while the minor crops include pulses, potatoes, onion, chillies, and garlic. (references)
Trade	Philippines	Fresh potatoes, onions and garlic are the only vegetables that have existing import protocols. (references)
	Dominican Rep	Tariff rate quotas were proposed for eight agricultural goods (rice, sugar, chicken parts, pork, corn, onions, milk powder and garlic). (references)
	Taiwan	Upon WTO accession, Taiwan will establish TRQs for currently banned products such as pork bellies, chicken meat, pork offal, poultry offal, liquid milk, peanuts, small red beans, garlic bulbs, some fruit and vegetables, rice and rice products. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus Lactuca, "Wherewith," says that pious gastronome, Hengist Pelly, "God has been pleased to reward the good and punish the wicked. For by his inner light the righteous man has discerned a manner of compounding for it a dressing to the appetency whereof a multitude of gustible condiments conspire, being reconciled and ameliorated with profusion of oil, the entire comestible making glad the heart of the godly and causing his face to shine. But the person of spiritual unworth is successfully tempted to the Adversary to eat of lettuce with destitution of oil, mustard, egg, salt and garlic, and with a rascal bath of vinegar polluted with sugar. Wherefore the person of spiritual unworth suffers an intestinal pang of strange complexity and raises the song."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Garlic

"Garlic" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Garlic" is used about 801 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	801	8,677

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Garlic

Expressions using "garlic": a taste of garlic ♦ Canada garlic ♦ clove of garlic ♦ crow garlic ♦ daffodil garlic ♦ false garlic ♦ field garlic ♦ garlic bread ♦ garlic butter ♦ garlic chive ♦ garlic clove ♦ garlic extract ♦ garlic mustard ♦ Garlic pear tree ♦ garlic powder ♦ garlic press ♦ garlic salt ♦ garlic sauce ♦ giant garlic ♦ golden garlic ♦ hedge garlic ♦ keeled garlic ♦ levant garlic ♦ Naples garlic ♦ oriental garlic ♦ reek of garlic ♦ spanish garlic ♦ stag's garlic ♦ taste of onions or garlic ♦ wild garlic ♦ wood garlic. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "garlic": garlic-and-beer, garlic-and-cross, garlic-and-onion, garlic-covered, garlic-crusher, garlic-eaters, garlic-flavoured, garlic-gnashing, garlic-like, garlic-scented.
	Ending with "garlic": anti-garlic, Pilled-garlic.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Garlic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
garlic	1,121
garlic press	178
growing garlic	174
garlic mashed potato	170
garlic festival	132
roasted garlic	97
garlic bread	80
garlic bread recipe	80
garlic goochs run	69
garlic mashed potato recipe	66
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Modern Translations: Garlic

Language		Translations for "garlic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		hudhër (leek). (various references)

Arabic		‏ثوم. (various references)

Asturian		ayu. (various references)

Bulgarian		чесън. (various references)

Catalan		all (leek). (various references)

Cebuano		ahos. (various references)

Chamorro		ahos. (various references)

Chinese		大�'�. (various references)

Cornish		kenynen ewynek. (various references)

Czech		èesnek. (various references)

Danish		hvidløg (leek). (various references)

Dutch		knoflook (leek), look (leek). (various references)

Esperanto		ajlo. (various references)

Faeroese		hvítleykur (leek). (various references)

Farsi		سیر (March, Promenade, Tired). (various references)

Finnish		valkosipuli. (various references)

French		ail. (various references)

Frisian		knyflok (leek). (various references)

Galician		allo. (various references)

German		Knoblauch (leek). (various references)

Greek		σκόρδο. (various references)

Guarani		áho. (various references)

Hawaiian		hudhër (leek). (various references)

Hungarian		fokhagyma (leek). (various references)

Indonesian		bawang putih. (various references)

Italian		aglio (leek). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�'� , 大�'� , ガーター編み (African daisy, Gacrux, garbage, garbology, garden, garden party, garden smoker, garnet, garter stitch, gaucho, gaucho hat, gaucho look, gaucho pants, gauss, Gaussian, Geiger counter, gerbera, girder bridge, girdle, girl, girl friend, girl hunt, Girl Scouts, gown, guard, guard bunker, guard cable, guardian, guardrail, guidance, guide number, guidebook, guideline, guidepost, guile, guy, security guard, spirit, tour guide). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		に�"にく, ガーリック . (various references)

Korean		마늘. (various references)

Macedonian		luk. (various references)

Manx		garleid. (various references)

Norwegian		hvitløk (leek). (various references)

Papago		ahshos. (various references)

Papiamen		konoflok (leek), konofló (leek). (various references)

Pig Latin		arlicgay.(various references)

Portuguese		alho (garlic extract, leek). (various references)

Provencal		alh. (various references)

Romanian		usturoi. (various references)

Romansch		agl. (various references)

Romany		sir. (various references)

Russian		чеснок. (various references)

Samoan		kalika. (various references)

Scottish		creamh. (various references)

Sepedi		konofele. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		beli luk. (various references)

Sicilian		agghiu. (various references)

Spanish		ajo (cuss, leek). (various references)

Sranan		kunofroku (leek). (various references)

Swedish		vitlök (leek). (various references)

Thai		กระเทียม, ซึ่งปรุงรส�"้วยกระเทียม. (various references)

Turkish		sarımsak. (various references)

Turkmen		sarymsyk, ajyga. (various references)

Ukranian		часник. (various references)

Welsh		garllegen, craf. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Garlic

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	1. �um, sum-sikil. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	absalom, adali, adalia, ala, alia, alii, aliique, aliis, alimis, alio, aliorum, alis, alium, allium, Allium sativum, alus, medala. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Garlic

Derivations
	Words beginning with "garlic": garlicked, garlicky, garlics. (additional references)
	Words ending with "garlic": pilgarlic. (additional references)
	Words containing "garlic": pilgarlics. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Garlic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alric, Arlick, Ealric, Gablik, gaellic, Gaglio, galac, galach, galec, galic, Galica, galik, Garelli, garil, Garioch, garlek, garlen, garley, garlick, garlics, garlicy, garlin, garlon, Garriock, Garrle, Gavril, gelic, gerlil, Gerloch, Gharaib, Gorlice, Gorlich, gorlois, Gornik, gralloch, Granick, Guarisco, Gurltia, Gurlyi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Garlic"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "garlic" (pronounced gÄ"rlik)
3	-l i k	acrylic, alcoholic, Alec, allelic, anabolic, anencephalic, angelic, bucolic, catholic, diastolic, frolic, gallic, hydraulic, hydrophilic, hyperbolic, idyllic, italic, melancholic, metabolic, metallic, nonalcoholic, nonpublic, parabolic, pedophilic, phallic, phenolic, psychedelic, public, relic, shashlik, symbolic, vitriolic, workaholic.
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Anagrams: Garlic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-l-r"
	-1 letter: argil, cigar, glair, grail.
	-2 letters: aril, carl, clag, crag, girl, glia, laic, lair, lari, liar, lira, ragi, rail, rial.
	-3 letters: ail, air, arc, car, cig, gal, gar, lac, lag, lar, rag, ria, rig.
	-4 letters: ag, ai, al, ar, la, li.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-l-r"
	+1 letter: carling, garlics, glacier, gracile.
	+2 letters: allergic, carlings, caroling, clearing, craaling, cradling, craggily, crawling, garlicky, glaciers, graciles, gracilis, oligarch, relacing, surgical, tragical.
	+3 letters: algebraic, articling, bracingly, bricolage, carolling, carpingly, cartilage, cellaring, cigarillo, clamoring, clavering, clearings, clearwing, collaring, crackling, crankling, curtilage, declaring, garlicked, goliardic, gracility, graphical, graticule, lackering, lethargic, neuralgic, oligarchs, oligarchy, parceling, pilgarlic, rackingly, recalling, recoaling, regicidal, replacing, rescaling, sacrilege, scrawling, trachling, viceregal.
	+4 letters: allergenic, arthralgic, becrawling, bricolages, calipering, calorizing, caprioling, caracoling, cardiology, carpooling, cartilages, charmingly, cigarillos, clabbering, clambering, clamouring, clangoring, clarifying, clarioning, clattering, clearwings, corelating, corralling, cracklings, craniology, crashingly, curtailing, curtilages, germicidal, glycosuria, graciously, grandchild, granulitic, graticules, karyologic, lacerating, lacquering, laryngitic, liturgical, marcelling, oligarchic, paraplegic, parcelling, pilgarlics, placarding, prelogical, preplacing, profligacy, radiologic, reclaiming, reclasping, recleaning, relocating, retackling, sacrileges, scrabbling, scragglier, scrambling, surgically, theurgical, tragically, trauchling, ulcerating, urological.
	+5 letters: accordingly, acromegalic, agriculture, algorithmic, allegorical, allographic, altercating, archangelic, archegonial, archipelago, beclamoring, berascaling, bricklaying, bryological, calendaring, calendering, calibrating, calligraphy, callipering, caracolling, caressingly, carpogonial, cartelising, cartelizing, categorical, cavaliering, celebrating, centrifugal, charcoaling, circulating, clangouring, cliffhanger, cologarithm, correlating, demiurgical, disgraceful, embracingly, flagrancies, freelancing, generically, geometrical, glycerinate, glycosurias, gracileness, gracilities, grammatical, granolithic, graphically, griddlecake, holographic, horological, interlacing, jackrolling, latchstring, logarithmic, logographic, lowercasing, lubricating, mineralogic, nonallergic, nonsurgical, oligarchies, organically, oscillogram, outcrawling, overcalling, panegyrical, paraplegics, parbuckling, percolating, polygraphic, praelecting, pragmatical, preachingly, precleaning, preclearing, proclaiming, racewalking, rebalancing, relaunching, reluctating, replicating, rheological, scraggliest, screamingly, searchingly, searchlight, serological, strategical, telegraphic, teratologic, tracklaying, viceregally, virological, xylographic.
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