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    GENUS 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 genusplay

    Synonyms:

    Allium; genus Allium

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus 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 "genus 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 ("genus 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)

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