ALLIUM PORRUM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum

Synonyms:

Allium porrum; leek; scallion

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "Allium porrum"):

leek (related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves)

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