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chives
(tʃaɪvz)
plural noun
Chives are the long thin hollow green leaves of a herb with purple flowers. Chives are cut into small pieces and added to food to give it a flavour similar to onions.
chives in British English
(tʃaɪvz)
plural noun
cookery
the leaves of the plant Allium schoenoprasum, used as a herb
chives in American English
(tʃaɪvz)
plural noun
[sometimes with sing. v.]
a hardy, perennial herb (Allium schoenoprasum) of the lily family, with small, slender, hollow leaves having a mild onion flavor: used in soups, stews, etc.
Word origin
ME cive < OFr < L cepa, onionImage ofchives
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British English: chives /tʃaɪvz/ NOUN
Chives are the long, thin, hollow green leaves of a herb. Chives are cut into small pieces and added to food to give it a flavour similar to onions.
- American English: chives
- Arabic: ثُوْم مُعَمِّر
- Brazilian Portuguese: cebolinha
- Chinese: 细香葱
- Croatian: vlasac
- Czech: pažitka
- Danish: purløg
- Dutch: bieslook
- European Spanish: cebollino
- Finnish: ruohosipuli
- French: ciboulette
- German: Schnittlauch
- Greek: σχοινόπρασο
- Italian: erba cipollina
- Japanese: チャイブ
- Korean: 부추
- Norwegian: gressløk
- Polish: szczypiorek
- European Portuguese: cebolinho
- Romanian: arpagic
- Russian: лук-резанец
- Latin American Spanish: cebolleta
- Swedish: gräslök
- Thai: พืชคล้ายหัวหอมมีก้านยาวสีเขียว
- Turkish: Frenk soğanı
- Ukrainian: цибуля-різанець
- Vietnamese: hẹ
Chinese translation of 'chives'
chives
(tʃaɪvz)
n pl
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细(細)香葱(蔥)
(xìxiāngcōng)