wild_onion (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *wild onion*:
NOUN	plant	wild onion	any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wild

English > *wild onion*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wild.
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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