# garlic
## English

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### Alternative forms

* garlick, garlicke (both archaic)

### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English garlek, garlik, from Old English gārlēac (“garlic”, literally “spear-leek”), from gār ("spear"; in reference to its sharp, tapering leaves) + lēac (“leek”). Cognate with Scots garlic (“garlic”), Faroese geirleykur (“garlic”), Icelandic geirlaukur (“garlic”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɡɑːlɪk/
* (US) enPR: gärˈlĭk, IPA: /ˈɡɑɹlɪk/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪk
* Homophone: garlick

### Noun

garlic (countable and uncountable, plural garlics)
* A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.
** 2013 March, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 16 May 2013, page 134:Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
* (uncountable) A preparation from Allium sativum used as a food ingredient or the flavor or other characteristics of such an ingredient.

#### Derived terms

* bear garlic
* bear's garlic (Allium ursinum)
* black garlic
* broadleaf garlic, broad-leaved garlic (Allium ursinum)
* Canadian garlic (Allium canadense)
* clove of garlic, garlic clove
* crow garlic (Allium vineale)
* daffodil garlic (Allium neapolitanum)
* elephant garlic (Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum)
* false garlic (Nothoscordum bivalve)
* field garlic (Allium vineale)
* garlic bread
* garlic butter
* garlic chewer
* garlic chive (Allium tuberosum)
* garlic clove
* garlic crusher
* garlic fingers
* garlic-germander (Teucrium scordium)
* garlic knot
* garlicky
* garlicless
* garliclike
* garlicmonger
* garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata)
* garlic pear
* garlic-pear, garlic-peartree (Crataeva gynandra)
* garlic powder
* garlic press
* garlic root (Alliaria petiolata)
* garlic-sage
* garlic salt
* garlic sausage
* garlic scroll
* garlic toad (Pelobates fuscus)
* garlic treaclewort
* garlic-tree (Scorodophloeus zenkeri)
* garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea)
* garlicwort (Alliaria petiolata)
* garlion
* giant garlic (Allium scorodoprasum)
* golden garlic (Allium moly)
* hard-necked garlic (Allium sativum var. ophioscorodon)
* hedge garlic (Alliaria petiolata)
* hog's garlic (Allium ursinum)
* Italian garlic (Allium pendulinum)
* jarlic
* keeled garlic (Allium carinatum)
* Levant garlic (Allium ampeloprasum)
* meadow garlic (Allium canadense)
* Naples garlic (Allium neopolitanum)
* Neapolitan garlic (Allium neopolitanum)
* Oriental garlic (Allium tuberosum)
* peel-garlic, pilgarlick
* pilled-garlic
* society garlic
* Spanish garlic (Allium scorodoprasum)
* stag's garlic (Allium vineale)
* white garlic (Allium neapolitanum)
* wild garlic (Allium ursinum; Allium vineale)
* wood garlic (Allium ursinum)

#### Related terms

* leek

#### Translations
### Verb

garlic (third-person singular simple present garlics, present participle garlicking, simple past and past participle garlicked)
* To flavour with garlic
** 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 1, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 2:[…] then through the sunned gathering of her marjoram and sweet basil from the herb garden, reading of book reviews in the latest Scientific American, into the layering of a lasagna, garlicking of a bread, tearing up of romaine leaves, eventually, oven on, into the mixing of the twilight's whisky sours against the arrival of her husband, Wendell (“Mucho) Maas from work, she wondered, wondered, shuffling back through a fat deckful of days which seemed (wouldn't she be first to admit it?) more or less identical, or all pointing the same way subtly like a conjurer's deck, any odd one readily clear to a trained eye.

#### Translations
### See also

* alliaceous
* clove
* ramp, ramson

### Further reading

* garlic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Category:garlic on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

## Middle English
### Noun

garlic
* Alternative form of garlek