noun
any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wild
• Hypernyms: ↑alliaceous plant
• Hyponyms:
↑Hooker's onion, ↑Allium acuminatum, ↑nodding onion, ↑nodding wild onion, ↑lady's leek, ↑Allium cernuum, ↑crow garlic, ↑false garlic, ↑field garlic, ↑stag's garlic, ↑wild garlic, ↑Allium vineale
• Member Holonyms: ↑Allium, ↑genus Allium
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noun1. : any of several plants of the genus Allium: as
a. : nodding onion
b. : crow garlic
3. : a bulbless fleshy-leaved Australian plant (Breebine semibarbata) of the family Liliaceae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.