Found 2 items, similar to Wild leek.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: wild leek
wild leek
n 1: North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish
flowers [syn:
ramp,
Allium tricoccum]
2: coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall
stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely
naturalized [syn:
Levant garlic,
kurrat,
Allium ampeloprasum
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Wild leek
Leek
\Leek\ (l[=e]k), n. [AS. le['a]c; akin to D. look, G.
lauch, OHG. louh, Icel. laukr, Sw. l["o]k, Dan l["o]g. Cf.
Garlic.] (Bot.)
A plant of the genus
Allium (
Allium Porrum), having
broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong
cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the
common onion.
[1913 Webster]
Wild leek, in America, a plant (
Allium tricoccum) with a
cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves.
[1913 Webster]