garlic chive

English

Flowering garlic chives.

Noun

garlic chive (plural garlic chives)

1. A plant, Allium tuberosum, with long, thin, white-flowering stalks, related to chives.
2. (in the plural) The garlic-flavoured leaves of this plant used as a vegetable in cooking.

Synonyms

• Chinese chives

Translations

plant

Assamese: গন্ধনা (gondhona) Bengali: চিভ (cibh) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: cibulet de la Xina m, porradell de la Xina m Chinese: Cantonese: 韭菜 (gau2 coi3) Hakka: 快菜 (khoai-chhoi) Hokkien: 韭菜 (kú-chhài) Mandarin: 韭菜 (zh) (jiǔcài) Dutch: Chinese bieslook (nl) m Finnish: kiinansipuli German: Knoblauch-Schnittlauch m, Schnittknoblauch m, Knolau m (colloquial) Japanese: ニラ (nira), 韮 (ja) (nira), 韭 (ja) (nira), にら (ja) (nira) Khmer: គូឆាយ (km) (kuuchaay) Korean: 부추 (ko) (buchu), 전구지 (jeon'guji) (Gyeongsang), 소풀 (sopul) (Jeolla) Manipuri: ꯃꯔꯣꯢ ꯅꯥꯀꯨꯞꯄꯤ (maroi naakooppee) Russian: джуса́й m (džusáj) Spanish: cuchay m Swedish: kinesisk gräslök c Tagalog: kutsay Thai: กุยช่าย (th) (gui-châai) Vietnamese: hẹ (vi) Zhuang: byaekgap

used in cooking

Chinese: Cantonese: 韭菜 (gau2 coi3) Hakka: 快菜 (khoai-chhoi) Hokkien: 韭菜 (kú-chhài) Mandarin: 韭菜 (zh) (jiǔcài) Finnish: kiinansipuli Japanese: ニラ (nira), 韮 (ja) (nira) Khmer: គូឆាយ (km) (kuuchaay) Russian: джуса́й m (džusáj) Spanish: cuchay m Swedish: kinesisk gräslök c Tagalog: kutsay Thai: กุยช่าย (th) (gui-châai) Zhuang: byaekgap

Further reading

• “garlic chive”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Allium tuberosum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia