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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: European herb that smells like garlic [syn: garlic mustard, hedge garlic, sauce-alone, jack-by-the- hedge, Alliaria officinalis]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Garlic Gar"lic, n. [OE. garlek, AS. g[=a]rle['a]c; gar spear, lance + le['a]c leek. See Gar, n., and Leek.] 1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable. 2. A kind of jig or farce. [Obs.] --Taylor (1630). Garlic mustard, a European plant of the Mustard family (Alliaria officinalis) which has a strong smell of garlic. Garlic pear tree, a tree in Jamaica (Crat[ae]va gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.