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noun

chives, chive n. (Bot.)

A perennial plant (Allium Schoenoprasum), allied to the onion, having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning. The young leaves are used in omelets, etc. (Written also cive)

Synonyms: chive, cive, schnittlaugh, Allium schoenoprasum.

The bulbous herb Allium Schoenoprasum used fresh as a mild onion-flavored seasoning.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... chopped things, and a man in a blue jerkin came to her side bearing a middling pig, seared to a pale clear pinkness. The boy held the slit stomach carefully apart, and she lined it with slices of bread, dropping into the hollow chives, nutmegs, lumps of salt, the buds of bergamot, and marigold seeds with their acrid perfume, and balls of honied suet. She bound round it a fair linen cloth that she stitched with ...

— Privy Seal - His Last Venture • Ford Madox Ford

... lovely one, to my fancy, has never beamed from the heavens since—I carelessly plucked a cowslip from a copse side, and gave it to Constance. 'Twas on that beautiful evening when she told me all her heart! as, seated on a mossy bank, she dissected, with downcast eyes, every part of the flower; chives, pointal, and petal, all were displayed; though I am sure she never even thought of the class. My destiny through life I considered as fixed from that hour.—Shortly afterwards I was called, by the death of a relative, to a distant part of England; upon my return, ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, - Issue 344 (Supplementary Issue) • Various

Words linked to "Chives" : Allium schoenoprasum, herb, schnittlaugh, cive, chive, alliaceous plant