Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or resembling onion, garlic, or similar plants of the genus Allium, particularly in taste and smell.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or having the properties of the genus Allium, which includes the onion and garlic.
- Having the peculiar smell or taste of the onion: applied specifically to minerals which contain arsenic and emit a garlic-like odor when heated on charcoal before the blowpipe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the genus Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Smelling or tasting of
garlic or onion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective smelling of onions or garlic
- adjective of or pertaining to the botanical genus Allium
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Shoppers, like me, flocked to the stall, charmed by the man in the garlic gloriole, whose sunny disposition seemed fueled by the alliaceous aura above.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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With the Batavian it usually is formed of chervil, tarragon, and that delicate alliaceous salad herb, chives.
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Nor would I rest until that alliaceous metropolis was fairly tipped over into Connecticut River, and sent drowning down to Long
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various
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_ -- It is cultivated for its bulbs, or cloves, which possess more of the flavor of the onion than any other alliaceous plant.
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And Chives (_Allium schoenoprasum_) are an ever green perennial herb of the onion tribe, having only a mild, alliaceous flavour.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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With the Batavian it usually is formed of chervil, tarragon, and that delicate alliaceous salad herb, chives.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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The alliaceous odors, with the cacodylic group (asafoetida, ichthyol, etc.).
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899
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Several species of alliaceous plants grow within the Confederate States.
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Most of the exotic alliaceous plants, the leek, onion, garlic, etc., are cultivated in the Confederate States.
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The smell of this plant is generally considered offensive, and it is the most acrimonious in its taste of the whole of the alliaceous tribe.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
MaryW commented on the word alliaceous
"When the candle was extinguished, the incandescent wick must provide the right temperature for reducing some of the white arsenic to the elemental state, generating the 'alliaceous odour' he detected."
James C. Whorton, The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain Was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2010)
October 11, 2015
qms commented on the word alliaceous
For spuds and for meat he's voracious
But Grandad makes haste to turn gracious
And claim he is sated
If it's intimated
The next dish could be alliaceous.
July 9, 2016