leek : Idioms & Phrases

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few-flowered leek

  • noun leek producing bulbils instead of flowers; Russia and Iran
    Allium paradoxum.
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green-leek

Green"-leek` noun
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  1. (Zoöl.) An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); -- called also the scarlet-breasted parrot.
Webster 1913

japanese leek

  • noun Asiatic onion with slender bulbs; used as early green onions
    Welsh onion; Allium fistulosum.
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lady's leek

  • noun widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers
    nodding onion; Allium cernuum; nodding wild onion.
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meadow leek

  • noun North American bulbous plant
    meadow leek; Canada garlic; Allium canadense.
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rose leek

  • noun North American bulbous plant
    meadow leek; Canada garlic; Allium canadense.
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round-headed leek

  • noun Old World leek with a spherical bulb
    Allium sphaerocephalum.
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sand leek

  • noun European leek cultivated and used like leeks
    Spanish garlic; giant garlic; Allium scorodoprasum; rocambole.
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three-cornered leek

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

  • noun European leek naturalized in Great Britain; leaves are triangular
    three-cornered leek; Allium triquetrum.
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Wild leek

  • noun North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers
    Allium tricoccum; ramp.
  • noun coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely naturalized
    Levant garlic; kurrat; Allium ampeloprasum.
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  • in America, a plant (Allium tricoccum) with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves.
Webster 1913