chive
- noun
- B2
- Top 10000
A garden plant with long, thin, hollow green leaves that taste mildly of onion and are cut up to flavour food.
Sprinkle some chopped chives over the soup just before serving.
She grows chives in a small pot on the kitchen windowsill.
The baked potato came with sour cream and fresh chives.
Cut the chives with scissors instead of chopping them with a knife.
Common collocations: chopped chives · fresh chives · snip chives · a bunch of chives · sour cream and chives
Part of: Vegetables, Cooking, Plants, The garden
Forms
- plural
- chives