No, it's one of the pieces inside. The whole thing is known as a "head" of garlic.
That would depend on how the garlic is to be prepared according to the recipe, creamed garlic would be be more potent than whole clove and whole clove would be sweeter. You see garlic strength varies in preparation, the more you crush, the more potency it has. I would say a dime size squeeze would be equivelent to two clove creamed garlic
Half a clove of Garlic
The answer to what is a garlic clove is that it is either 1 section of a garlic bulb.
A clove of garlic is a single "wedge-shaped" section of the entire white "bulb" of the garlic.
No, the tooth of garlic is the individual slice of a clove of garlic.
To efficiently transform a garlic clove into minced garlic, peel the clove, then finely chop it with a knife or use a garlic press to crush it into small pieces.
*How to bruise a garlic clove: Place your knife flat on top of the garlic clove and whack it so that the garlic is a bit mooshed but ideally, still in one piece.
The collective nouns for garlic are a bulb of garlic or a rope of garlic.
A single clove of garlic typically contains about 1 gram of garlic.
One clove of garlic typically contains about 1 gram of garlic.
One clove of garlic is equivalent to about 1 teaspoon of minced garlic.
A garlic clove is typically about the size of a small grape or a large blueberry.