clove3 (klov)

[ IMG:content-0649.png:[graphic] Branch of the Clove-tree (Eugenia caryophyllata ), with unopened bud. 1. A order Myrtacea , originally of the Moluccas, but now cultivated in Zanzibar, the West Indies, Brazil, and other tropical regions. The tree is a handsome evergreen, from 15 to 30 feet high, with large, elliptic, smooth leaves and numerous purplish flowers on jointed stalks. Every part of the plant abounds in the 2. One of several plants of other genera belonging to the same order. Species of Melilot us are known as sweet clover and Bokhara or tree clover. Buror heart clover is Medicago maculata ; Calvary clover, the spiny fruited Medicago Echinus ; bush-clover, species of Lespe deza ; bird's-foot clover, Lotus corniculatus and Trigon ell a ornithopodioides ; prairie clover, species of Petalostemon , etc.Clover-hay worm, the larva of the pyralid moth, Asopia costal is (Fabric i us). It occurs all over the United States and Canada, and was probably brought from Europe; it feeds exclusively upon stored clover, matting it together with silk filled with excremental pellets, and utterly spoiling it as food for stock. It makes its cocoon either at the borders of the hay-mow or stack, or entirely IMG:content-0650.png:[blocks in formation] 7 2. The tree which bears cloves.-3. [F. clou, a nail: see etym.] A long spike-nail. - Mother cloves, the dried fruit of the clove-tree, resembling cloves somewhat in appearance, but larger and le aromatic.Oil of cloves, an e ential oil obtained from the buds of the clove-tree. It is the least volatile of the e ential oils, and consists of eugenic acid and a neutral oil. It is colorle or has a faint yellow tinge, a strong characteristic odor, and a burning taste. - Royal clove, an abnormal state of the clove, in which it has an unusual number of sepals and large bracts at the base: once held in high repute from its rarity and supposed virtues. - Wild clove, a small tree of the West Indies and Venezuela, Piment a acris, which yields the oil of myrcia, the basis of bay-rum. cloves (klōv), n. [Origin uncertain.] In England, a weight of cheese, etc. A statute of 1430 makes the clove equal to 7 pounds. The word is still used in Suffolk and E ex for a weight of 8 pounds of cheese or wool, as a division of the wey. clove-bark, clove-cinnamon (klōv'bärk, -sin"a-mon), n. Same as clove - ca ia (which see, under ca ia).