cloves (klov)

[ clove3, q. v.), = E. clough1, q.v.; thus ult. from AS. cleófan, E. cleave, split: see cleave2, cloves, clough1.] One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a mother bulb, as in garlic. Clowe [var. cloue ] of garlykke [var. garlek or other lyke], costula. Prompt . Parv ., p. 436.