| NOUN | plant | wild onion | any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wild |
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| Meaning | Any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wild. | |
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| Member of | Allium, genus Allium | large genus of perennial and biennial pungent bulbous plants |
| Narrower | Hooker's onion, Allium acuminatum | A common North American wild onion with a strong onion odor and an umbel of pink flowers atop a leafless stalk |
| crow garlic, false garlic, field garlic, stag's garlic, wild garlic, Allium vineale | pungent Old World wild onion | |
| nodding onion, nodding wild onion, lady's leek, Allium cernuum | widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers | |
| Broader | alliaceous plant | bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odor |
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