Name (also known as cloves or spice nails) for the intensely fragrant and pungent-tasting dried flower buds of the clove tree, originally native to the Indonesian archipelago of the Moluccas (Spice Islands). The evergreen tree can grow to a height of more than ten metres. The name is derived from the shape of the buds, which are reminiscent of nails, and the clove-like odour. The substance...
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