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ALLIUM ACUMINATUM
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A common North American wild onion with a strong onion odor and an umbel of pink flowers atop a leafless stalk; British Columbia to California and Arizona and east to Wyoming and Colorado
Synonyms:
Allium acuminatum; Hooker's onion
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Allium acuminatum" is a kind of...):
wild onion (any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wild)
Holonyms ("Allium acuminatum" is a member of...):
Allium; genus Allium (large genus of perennial and biennial pungent bulbous plants: garlic; leek; onion; chive; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae as the type genus)
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