† Cloved

ppl. a. Obs. [f. CLOVE sb.¹ + -ED². In this sense OE. had clufeht adj.] Divided into cloves like garlic. In early use: Bulbous.

[c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., II. 128. Of þære clufihtan wenwyrte.]

1577.  Harrison, England, III. viii. (1878), II. 51. The root of the herbe [saffron] … is round … & yet it is not cloued as the lillie, nor flaked as the scallion.

1597.  Gerarde, Herbal, I. viii. § 2. 11. The roote is thicke, and cloued like rush onions or ciues. Ibid., I. 151. The red Lillie of Constantinople hath a yellowe scaly or cloued roote.