Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
clove , 1. - noun One of the popular names of Dianthus Caryophyllus, given especially to the clove-scented, double-flowered, whole-colored varieties.
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Examples
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Gelopere I cannot find, and can only suggest that its _p_ may be for _f_, and that “cloves of gelofer,” the clove-gillyflower, may have been the basis of it.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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