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garlic

/ˈɡɑɹlɪk/ noun A2
  1. A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking. (countable, uncountable)
  2. A preparation from Allium sativum used as a food ingredient or the flavor or other characteristics of such an ingredient. (uncountable)

Plural garlics

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The latter seemed to have resigned himself; he drew the corks, and partook largely of the fish with the garlic and fat.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 832 · C1
Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic, tomatoes, and eschalots; while, lone and solitary, like a forgotten sentinel, a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot, and displayed its flexible stem and fan-shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the sub-tropical sun.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 277 · C1
Andrea, indeed, inhaled the scent of something cooking which was not unwelcome to him, hungry as he was; it was that mixture of fat and garlic peculiar to Provençal kitchens of an inferior order, added to that of dried fish, and above all, the pungent smell of musk and cloves.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 829 · C1
My aunt always brings a sweet corn dish and some warm garlic bread.
A Sunday Braai in Johannesburg, p. 1 · B1

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