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clove

clove, garlic clove - n 
one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb 

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A clove of garlic is not the same thing as a head of garlic. The head is the entire bulb that's covered in papery skin. When you peel back the skin, you'll find individual segments — these wedge-shaped sections are called cloves. The cloves are easy to separate from each other, allowing you to use a few cloves and leave the rest of the head (which is also called a bulb or a knob) mostly intact. 

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One bulb of garlic in a typical garlic head contains between 10 to 12 cloves. Some hard-neck garlic varieties have as many as 30 or 40 cloves per bulb. Within the single bulb, though, the cloves will have a multitude of sizes.

If you plant a garlic clove in the soil with the root end down and the pointy end up, you can produce a fresh bulb easily.

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