alliaceous plant
Noun
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Bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odor (synset 112451939)
is a type of: liliaceous plant - plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tubersubtypes:
- wild onion - any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wild
- allium ampeloprasum, kurrat, levant garlic, wild leek - coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely naturalized
- allium canadense, canada garlic, meadow leek, rose leek - North American bulbous plant
- allium carinatum, keeled garlic - Eurasian bulbous plant
- allium cepa, onion, onion plant - bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb
- allium porrum, leek, scallion - plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
- allium neopolitanum, daffodil garlic, flowering onion, naples garlic - European onion with white flowers
- allium paradoxum, few-flowered leek - leek producing bulbils instead of flowers; Russia and Iran
- allium sativum, garlic - bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves
- allium scorodoprasum, giant garlic, rocambole, sand leek, spanish garlic - European leek cultivated and used like leeks
- allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, cive, schnittlaugh - perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning
- allium tricoccum, ramp, wild leek - North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers
- allium ursinum, ramsons, wild garlic, wood garlic - pungent Old World weedy plant
- allium tuberosum, chinese chive, garlic chive, oriental garlic - a plant of eastern Asia; larger than Allium schoenoprasum
- allium sphaerocephalum, round-headed leek - Old World leek with a spherical bulb
- allium triquetrum, three-cornered leek, triquetrous leek - European leek naturalized in Great Britain; leaves are triangular
belongs to: 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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