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alliaceous.

Adjective
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MEANING

Having a smell or taste resembling garlic or onion.

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  • alliaceous odor
  • alliaceous flavor

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An alliaceous odor rose from the crushed bulb.
The stew retained an alliaceous flavor after the spices faded.

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alliaceous

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Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Comparative more alliaceous; superlative most alliaceous where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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