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 →

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 →
• I love garlic bread. tree →
• Garlic has a very strong smell. tree →
• We planted garlic cloves in the garden. tree →
• In old stories, garlic keeps vampires away. tree →
• Her breath smelled of garlic after dinner. tree →
• Garlic is bad for dogs, so don't feed it to them. tree →

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.
• Onions, garlic, chocolate, grapes, salt and xylitol sweetener can make pets very ill.
• Onions, garlic, chocolate, grapes, salt and xylitol sweetener can make pets very ill, so pets eat their own food.
• Onions, garlic, chocolate, grapes, very salty food and the sweetener xylitol can make pets very ill.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «garlic» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.