Resembling garlic in appearance, taste, or smell.
From garlic (Old English gārlēac, from gār 'spear' + lēac 'leek') + like (Old English gelīc 'similar'). The compound formation reflects how English creates descriptive adjectives by adding 'like' to nouns.
Medieval herbalists used '-like' compounds to describe plants they'd never seen before, creating a naming system that worked like a picture without the picture—'garliclike' instantly told you what something resembled before you ever saw it.
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