a vegetable of the onion family with a very strong taste and smell, used in cooking to give flavor to food a clove of garlic (= one section of it) Fry the chopped onion and crushed garlic for 3 minutes.
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NAmE//ˈɡɑrlɪki//
adjective garlicky breath/foodSee garlic in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: garlic