Garlic

a small, bulbous plant closely related to the onion. Garlic is a garden vegetable much used by the people of Southern Europe in soups and other cooking. A "garlic breath" is even more pronounced than that produced by eating onions. The juice of garlic makes a cement for mending glassware. The juice is used as an ointment in case of fever. A wild garlic found in woodland pastures is eaten by cows in the springtime. It ruins the milk. The name is from an old Saxon word, gar, meaning a spear, having reference to the spear-like shape of the leaves. The same syllable appears in garfish. See Onion; Leek