Usually means: Edible herbs, mild onion flavor.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. chives: Merriam-Webster
  2. chives: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chives: Collins English Dictionary
  4. chives: Vocabulary.com
  5. Chives, chives: Wordnik
  6. chives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. chives: Wiktionary
  8. chives: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. chives: Dictionary.com
  10. chives: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Chives (disambiguation), Chives: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. chives: Rhymezone
  13. chives: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. chives: FreeDictionary.org
  15. chives: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. chives: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. chives: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chives: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chives: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chives: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chives: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)
  3. Chives: Dictionary of Horticultural Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chives: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The leaves of the perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, used as a herb.

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