garlic chive

noun

A plant, Allium tuberosum, with long, thin, white-flowering stalks, related to chives.

Similar
kuchayChinese chiveOriental garlicAllium tuberosum
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Meanings

noungarlic chive (plural garlic chives)

plural garlic chives

  1. A plant, Allium tuberosum, with long, thin, white-flowering stalks, related to chives.

    Synonyms: kuchay

  2. in pluralThe garlic-flavoured leaves of this plant used as a vegetable in cooking.

    Synonyms: Chinese chive

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA plant, Allium tuberosum, with long, thin, white-flowering stalks, related to chives.

Similar
kuchay

nounThe garlic-flavoured leaves of this plant used as a vegetable in cooking.

Similar
Chinese chive

More synonyms by meaning

nouna plant of eastern Asia; larger than Allium schoenoprasum

Similar
Chinese chiveOriental garlicAllium tuberosum
Broader
alliaceous plant
Also see
chinese chivekau choi

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Bengali চিভ
  • চিভ (cibh)plant
Catalan cibulet de la Xina, porradell de la Xina
  • cibulet de la Xinaplant
  • porradell de la Xinaplant
Chinese Cantonese 韭菜, 韭菜
  • 韭菜 (gau² coi³)used in cooking
  • 韭菜 (gau² coi³)plant
Chinese Mandarin 韭菜, 韭菜
  • 韭菜 (jiǔcài)used in cooking
  • 韭菜 (jiǔcài)plant
Dutch Chinese bieslook
  • Chinese bieslookplant
Finnish kiinansipuli, kiinansipuli
  • kiinansipuliused in cooking
  • kiinansipuliplant
German Knoblauch-Schnittlauch, Schnittknoblauch
  • Knoblauch-Schnittlauchplant
  • Schnittknoblauchplant
  • Knolauplant
Indonesian kucai
  • kucaiplant
Japanese ニラ, 韮
  • ニラ (nira)used in cooking
  • 韮 (nira)used in cooking
  • 韮 (nira)plant
  • 韭 (nira)plant
Korean 부추, 전구지
  • 부추 (buchu)plant
  • 전구지 (jeon'guji)plant
  • 소풀 (sopul)plant
Malay kucai
  • kucaiplant
Russian джуса́й, джуса́й
  • джуса́й (džusáj)used in cooking
  • джуса́й (džusáj)plant
Spanish cuchay, cuchay
  • cuchayused in cooking
  • cuchayplant
Swedish kinesisk gräslök, kinesisk gräslök
  • kinesisk gräslökused in cooking
  • kinesisk gräslökplant
Tagalog kutsay, kutsay
  • kutsayused in cooking
  • kutsayplant
Thai กุยช่าย, กุยช่าย
  • กุยช่าย (gui-châai)used in cooking
  • กุยช่าย (gui-châai)plant
Vietnamese hẹ
  • hẹplant
Cite this entry
APA

garlic chive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/garlic%20chive

MLA

“garlic chive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/garlic%20chive. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “garlic chive,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/garlic%20chive.

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