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    HOOKER'S ONION

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    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 Coloradoplay

    Synonyms:

    Allium acuminatum; Hooker's onion

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Hooker's onion" is a kind of...):

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

    Holonyms ("Hooker's onion" is a member of...):

    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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