English word senses marked with lifeform category "Alliums"
Parent categories: Amaryllis family plants, Root vegetables, Spices and herbs, Asparagales order plants, Flowers, Vegetables, Foods, Plants, Eating, Food and drink, Lifeforms, Human behaviour, Life, Human, Nature
Total 58 word senses
- Bristol onion (Noun) A species of onion, Allium sphaerocephalon, found only on the slopes of the Avon Gorge
- Canada onion (Noun) A perennial plant, (Allium canadense), native to eastern North America.
- Canadian garlic (Noun) Synonym of Canada onion (Allium canadense)
- Chinese chive (Noun) The garlic chive, Allium tuberosum.
- Japanese bunching onion (Noun) Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum)
- Persian shallot (Noun) Allium stipitatum, an Asian species of Allium native to central and southwestern Asia.
- Spanish onion (Noun) red onion.
- Welsh onion (Noun) A species of onion (Allium fistulosum).
- alliaceous (Adjective) Smelling or tasting of garlic or onion.
- bear garlic (Noun) A wild plant related to chives; ramsons, Allium ursinum.
- broad-leaved garlic (Noun) Ramsons (Allium ursinum).
- chive (Noun) A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
- chive (Noun) The spring onion; The green onion; the scallion.
- chive (Verb) To cut.
- cippolini (Noun) A kind of small sweet onion.
- desert onion (Noun) Allium macropetalum, a species of wild onion.
- elephant garlic (Noun) A perennial plant related to leeks, Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum, having large cloves that can be substituted for garlic in cooking.
- garlic (Noun) A preparation from Allium sativum used as a food ingredient or the flavor or other characteristics of such an ingredient.
- garlic chive (Noun) A plant, Allium tuberosum, with long, thin, white-flowering stalks, related to chives.
- garlicky (Adjective) Tasting or smelling of garlic.
- garlion (Noun) A hybrid vegetable resulting from a cross between garlic and onion.
- green onion (Noun) Synonym of spring onion
- jimbu (Noun) A Himalayan herb related to the onion.
- kurrat (Noun) Egyptian leek; considered a variety of Allium ampeloprasum (Allium ampeloprasum var. kurrat) or a species Allium kurrat
- leek (Noun) Any of several species of Allium, broadly resembling the domesticated plant in appearance in the wild.
- meadow garlic (Noun) Synonym of Canada onion (Allium canadense)
- meadow leek (Noun) Synonym of Canada onion
- moly (Noun) Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly.
- multiplier onion (Noun) The potato onion.
- onion (Noun) A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
- onion (Noun) A plant of the genus Allium as a whole.
- onion (Noun) A ball.
- onion (Noun) Soy, particularly when used in compound words related to the soy boy stereotype.
- onion grass (Noun) Wild or feral chives, garlic, or other species with grass-like leaves in the genus Allium, particularly Allium vineale, a wild herb native to Europe and western Asia, naturalised elsewhere; a common lawn weed.
- porret (Noun) A scallion; a leek or small onion.
- potato onion (Noun) A variety of onion, similar to the shallot but producing larger bulbs.
- ramp (Noun) A worthless person.
- ramson (Noun) A plant, Allium ursinum, a wild relative of chives and garlic.
- ramsons (Noun) A wild relative of chives, of species Allium ursinum, having edible leaves and roots.
- red onion (Noun) A type of onion with reddish purplish skin.
- rocambole (Noun) The sand leek, Allium scorodoprasum
- rose leek (Noun) Synonym of Canada onion
- salad onion (Noun) spring onion
- sand leek (Noun) A wild onion of species Allium scorodoprasum.
- scallion (Noun) Any of various similar members of the genus Allium.
- shallot (Noun) Any vegetable of certain species in the onion family.; Allium ascalonium.
- shallot (Noun) Any vegetable of certain species in the onion family.; Allium oschaninii.
- shallot (Noun) Any small onion.
- shallot (Noun) A scallion.
- spring onion (Noun) A species of onion (Allium fistulosum) from Asia, with slender bulbs.
- sybo (Noun) A spring onion.
- syboe (Noun) A spring onion or green onion.
- twincrest onion (Noun) A wild herb with an onion-like flavor, Allium bisceptrum, native to high elevations in the western US
- wild garlic (Noun) Ramsons (Allium ursinum).
- wild leek (Noun) A wild onion native to southern Europe and western Asia, cultivated and consequently naturalized in many other places, Allium ampeloprasum.
- wild onion (Noun) Any of a large number of noncultivated plants that smell similar to, or otherwise resemble, onions, especially in the genus Allium.
- wood garlic (Noun) Ramsons.
- yellow onion (Noun) A dry onion with a strong flavor and papery yellowish skin.
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