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  • noun rare Plural form of garlic.

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Examples

  • Ms. KENNEDY: Not those big elephant garlics you get in the States - just drives me mad.

    Cooking With The Grand Dame Of Mexican Cuisine 2010

  • Ms. KENNEDY: Not those big elephant garlics you get in the States - just drives me mad.

    Cooking With The Grand Dame Of Mexican Cuisine 2010

  • I thought the purple things must be the garlics and the white bulby ones the onions.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009

  • Arrangements of living plants hanging on the porch, seeds with the life in them sitting in carefully placed jars, garlics, stains of berry juices, all so strongly placed that even with the likker in him to dull the black noise, Lolla-Wossiky could feel the pushing and pulling of the fendings and wardings and hexes.

    He Don't Know Him 2010

  • They have been bred and cross-bred, hybridized and re-hybridized into literally thousands of useful varieties of garlics, onions, chives, scallions and shallots, and preserved in tinctures, wines, liqueurs and oils as one of the oldest continually used general purpose medicines on earth.

    A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers 2007

  • Alliums (particularly the strong, wild garlics) have been used topically as antibiotic, systematically as general tonic, as antibiotic for bacterial infections and for treatment of several types of fungal infection.

    A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers 2007

  • May 26, 2009 at 9:15 am oh, has u been to a garlic ranch? does they has the wild garlics there? do u gets to cooks them at home on teh range?

    GIVE A CAT A FISH - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • I took the share spelled out on the blackboard — 2.5 pounds of yams, 1.5 pounds of carrots, a head of broccoli, two greens, three peppers, five garlics, one rutabaga … and then I checked the “U-pick” board.

    There's Something in the Air 2008

  • I took the share spelled out on the blackboard — 2.5 pounds of yams, 1.5 pounds of carrots, a head of broccoli, two greens, three peppers, five garlics, one rutabaga … and then I checked the “U-pick” board.

    Printing: There's Something in the Air 2008

  • The little girl pointed at the potatoes, and commanded the man to give her just this many, knowing exactly what she wanted: two zucchinis, not more, one onion, three garlics, and a handful of beans, and no, absolutely not, to some strange vegetable.

    Karin Badt: Streetkid Shopping in Varanasi (xv) 2008

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