1) Alliaceous plant 2) Allium porrum 3) Biennial herb 4) Big scallion 5) Bulb in soups 6) Bulb related to onions 7) Bulb used in cookery 8) Bulbed vegetable 9) Bulbed veggie 10) Bulb vegetable 11) Chive kin 12) Chive relative 13) Color similar to pea green 14) Cousin of an onion 15) Commonly eaten toxic plant
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1) Scallion
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The leek is a vegetable that belongs, along with onion and garlic, to the genus Allium, currently placed in family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Allioideae. Historically many scientific names were used for leeks, which are now treated as cultivars of Allium ampeloprasum. Two related vegetables, elephant garlic and Kurrat, are also cultivars of A. ampe...
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• (n.) A plant of the genus Allium (A. Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion.
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(species Allium porrum), hardy, vigorous, biennial plant of the lily family (Liliaceae). Related to the onion, it has a mild, sweet, onionlike ...
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<botany> A plant of the genus Allium (A. Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion. Wild leek, in America, a plant (Allium tricoccum) with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves. ... Origin: AS.leac; akin to D. Look, G....
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Leek (lēk)
noun [ Anglo-Saxon
leác ; akin to Dutch
look , German
lauch , Old High German
louh , Icelandic
laukr , Swedish
lök , Dan
lög . Confer
Garlic .]
(Botany) A plant of the genus
Allium (
A. Porrum ), havi...
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The leek (Allium porrum) is a hardy biennial plant of the lily family (Liliaceae), related to the onion. In the first year, long, linear leaves arise from a compressed stem. In the second year a tall, solid stalk rises bearing leaves and a large, globular, simple, terminal umbel of numerous flowers.
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[
n] - plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves 2. [n] - related to onions
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noun related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves
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Onionlike plant belonging to the lily family. The cultivated leek is a variety of the wild species
A. ampeloprasum of the Mediterranean area and Atlantic islands. The lower leaf parts and white bulb are eaten as a vegetable. (Genus
Allium, family Liliaceae.)
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