English Dictionary

chive

/t͡ʃaɪv/

noun

A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion. / (in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb. / (obsolete) The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.

I added some chives to the salad for extra flavor.

意味（1）

A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.

意味（2）

(in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.

意味（3）

(obsolete) The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.

[…] in the place wher he bled, Saffron was after found to grow, whereupon the people séeyng the color of the chiue as it stoode, (although I doubt not but it grewe there long before) adiudged it to come to the bloude of Crocus, and therefore they gaue it his name.

意味（4）

(Trinidad and Tobago, dialect) The spring onion; The green onion; the scallion.