liliaceous plant — noun plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber • Hypernyms: ↑bulbous plant • Hyponyms: ↑lily, ↑agapanthus, ↑lily of the Nile, ↑albuca, ↑colicroot, ↑colic root, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
onion plant — noun bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb • Syn: ↑onion, ↑Allium cepa • Hypernyms: ↑alliaceous plant • Hyponyms: ↑shallot, ↑eschalot, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
wild leek — noun 1. coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple tinged flowers; widely naturalized • Syn: ↑Levant garlic, ↑kurrat, ↑Allium ampeloprasum • Hypernyms: ↑alliaceous plant 2. North American perennial having a… … Useful english dictionary
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 • Syn: ↑Allium • Derivationally related forms: ↑alliaceous (for: ↑Allium) … Useful english dictionary
chives — noun 1. perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning • Syn: ↑chive, ↑cive, ↑schnittlaugh, ↑Allium schoenoprasum • Hypernyms: ↑alliaceous plant 2. cylindrical leaves used fresh as a mild onion flavored seasoning … Useful english dictionary
Allium cepa — noun bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb • Syn: ↑onion, ↑onion plant • Hypernyms: ↑alliaceous plant • Hyponyms: ↑shallot, ↑eschalot, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Allium canadense — noun North American bulbous plant • Syn: ↑Canada garlic, ↑meadow leek, ↑rose leek • Hypernyms: ↑alliaceous plant … Useful english dictionary
Allium carinatum — noun Eurasian bulbous plant • Syn: ↑keeled garlic • Hypernyms: ↑alliaceous plant … Useful english dictionary
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 • Syn: ↑leek, ↑scallion • Hypernyms: ↑alliaceous plant • Part Meronyms: ↑leek … Useful english dictionary
Allium tuberosum — noun a plant of eastern Asia; larger than Allium schoenoprasum • Syn: ↑garlic chive, ↑Chinese chive, ↑Oriental garlic • Hypernyms: ↑alliaceous plant • Part Meronyms: ↑garlic chive … Useful english dictionary
