allium : Idioms & Phrases

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allium acuminatum

  • noun a common North American wild onion with a strong onion odor and an umbel of pink flowers atop a leafless stalk; British Columbia to California and Arizona and east to Wyoming and Colorado
    Hooker's onion.
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allium ampeloprasum

  • noun coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely naturalized
    Levant garlic; kurrat; wild leek.
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allium ascalonicum

  • noun type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning
    shallot; Allium ascalonicum; eschalot; multiplier onion.
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allium canadense

  • noun North American bulbous plant
    meadow leek; rose leek; Canada garlic.
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allium carinatum

  • noun Eurasian bulbous plant
    keeled garlic.
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allium cepa

  • noun bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb
    onion plant; onion.
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allium cepa aggregatum

  • noun type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning
    shallot; Allium ascalonicum; eschalot; multiplier onion.
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allium cepa viviparum

  • noun type of perennial onion grown chiefly as a curiosity or for early salad onions; having bulbils that replace the flowers
    tree onion; top onion; Egyptian onion.
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allium cernuum

  • noun widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers
    nodding onion; lady's leek; nodding wild onion.
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allium fistulosum

  • noun Asiatic onion with slender bulbs; used as early green onions
    Welsh onion; Japanese leek.
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allium haematochiton

  • noun onion with white to deep red tunic; California
    red-skinned onion.
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allium neopolitanum

  • noun European onion with white flowers
    Naples garlic; flowering onion; daffodil garlic.
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allium paradoxum

  • noun leek producing bulbils instead of flowers; Russia and Iran
    few-flowered leek.
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allium porrum

  • noun plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
    leek; scallion.
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allium sativum

  • noun bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves
    garlic.
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allium schoenoprasum

  • noun perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning
    chive; chives; cive; schnittlaugh.
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allium scorodoprasum

  • noun European leek cultivated and used like leeks
    sand leek; Spanish garlic; giant garlic; rocambole.
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allium sphaerocephalum

  • noun Old World leek with a spherical bulb
    round-headed leek.
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allium tricoccum

  • noun North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers
    wild leek; ramp.
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allium triquetrum

  • noun European leek naturalized in Great Britain; leaves are triangular
    three-cornered leek; triquetrous leek.
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allium tuberosum

  • noun a plant of eastern Asia; larger than Allium schoenoprasum
    Chinese chive; Oriental garlic; garlic chive.
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allium ursinum

  • noun pungent Old World weedy plant
    Ramsons; wild garlic; wood garlic.
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allium vineale

  • noun pungent Old World wild onion
    crow garlic; false garlic; stag's garlic; wild garlic; field garlic.
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genus allium

  • noun large genus of perennial and biennial pungent bulbous plants: garlic; leek; onion; chive; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae as the type genus
    Allium.
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