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# garlic

noun (garlic — uncountable; a clove of garlic, a bulb of garlic)

«garlic» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A plant like a small onion with a strong smell and taste, used to flavour food; its bulb splits into parts called cloves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/#m1)

### In the lessons

In cooking and everyday life, garlic flavours pasta, bread and many dishes. In science, garlic is a bulb that grows underground, like an onion. In stories and myths, garlic keeps vampires away. Phrases: «a clove of garlic», «garlic bread», «crush garlic».

### Examples

- Dad chopped two cloves of garlic for the sauce. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/#x1)
- I love garlic bread. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/#x2)
- Garlic has a very strong smell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/#x3)
- We planted garlic cloves in the garden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/#x4)
- In old stories, garlic keeps vampires away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/#x5)
- Her breath smelled of garlic after dinner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/#x6)
- Garlic is bad for dogs, so don't feed it to them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/#x7)

### Note

Uncountable: «some garlic», «a clove of garlic», «a bulb (head) of garlic» — not «a garlic». Garlic and onion are toxic to dogs and cats. Vampires are not real.

## In Jewish tradition

In the Torah it is one of the Egyptian foods the Israelites complained they missed in the desert.

**Interpretation.** Tradition sees the complaint as ungrateful, longing for slave-food over freedom and manna.

### Examples

- We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; (Torah NUM.11.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/garlic/#x1)

### Note

Uncountable: «some garlic», «a clove of garlic», «a bulb (head) of garlic» — not «a garlic». Garlic and onion are toxic to dogs and cats. Vampires are not real.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «garlic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«garlic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/garlic.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «garlic» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/garlic/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«garlic» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/garlic.html) on Mova free.