crow garlic

crow garlic
noun
pungent Old World wild onion
Hypernyms: ↑wild onion

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noun
Etymology: Middle English crawegarlek, from crawe, crowe crow + garlek garlic
: a wild onion (Allium vineale) having no bulblets in the flower cluster and with narrow terete leaves that extend one-third way to halfway up the stiff stem — called also field garlic, wild garlic

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