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WILD ONION
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wild
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wild onion" is a kind of...):
alliaceous plant (bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild onion"):
Allium acuminatum; Hooker's onion (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)
Allium cernuum; lady's leek; nodding onion; nodding wild onion (widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers)
Allium vineale; crow garlic; false garlic; field garlic; stag's garlic; wild garlic (pungent Old World wild onion)
Holonyms ("wild onion" 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)