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LADY'S LEEK

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• LADY'S LEEK (noun)
The noun LADY'S LEEK has 1 sense:

1. widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers

Familiarity information: LADY'S LEEK used as a noun is very rare.

• LADY'S LEEK (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Allium cernuum; lady's leek; nodding onion; nodding wild onion

Hypernyms ("lady's leek" is a kind of...):

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

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