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LADY'S LEEK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lady's leek mean?
• 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.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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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