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# garlic

«garlic» in Mova's school dictionary: **A plant like a small onion with a strong smell and taste…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/#m1)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/#x1)
- I love garlic bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/#x2)
- Garlic has a very strong smell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/#x3)
- We planted garlic cloves in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/#x4)
- In old stories, garlic keeps vampires away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/#x5)
- Her breath smelled of garlic after dinner. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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 the corpora

- [The moonrat smells strongly of garlic or onion, and despite its name it is not a rat but a cousin of the hedgehog.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower/11/)
- [Onions, garlic, chocolate, grapes, salt and xylitol sweetener can make pets very ill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/18/)
- [Onions, garlic, chocolate, grapes, salt and xylitol sweetener can make pets very ill, so pets eat their own food.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/8/)
- [Onions, garlic, chocolate, grapes, very salty food and the sweetener xylitol can make pets very ill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «garlic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garlic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.