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ALLIUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large genus of perennial and biennial pungent bulbous plants: garlic; leek; onion; chive; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae as the type genus

Synonyms:

Allium; genus Allium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Allium" is a kind of...):

liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

Meronyms (members of "Allium"):

alliaceous plant (bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odor)

wild onion (any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wild)

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)

Holonyms ("Allium" is a member of...):

family Liliaceae; Liliaceae; lily family (includes species sometimes divided among the following families: Alliaceae; Aloeaceae; Alstroemeriaceae; Aphyllanthaceae; Asparagaceae; Asphodelaceae; Colchicaceae; Convallariaceae; Hemerocallidaceae; Hostaceae; Hyacinthaceae; Melanthiaceae; Ruscaceae; Smilacaceae; Tecophilaeacea; Xanthorrhoeaceae)

Derivation:

alliaceous (of or pertaining to the botanical genus Allium)

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