Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous, usually bulbous plants of the genus Allium, having long stalks bearing clusters of variously colored flowers and including many ornamental and food plants, such as onions, leeks, chives, garlic, and shallots.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The largest genus of plants of the natural order Liliaceæ, of about 300 species, natives, with few exceptions, of the northern temperate zone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (bot.) A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of many
bulbous plants, of the genusAllium , related toonions andgarlic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large genus of perennial and biennial pungent bulbous plants: garlic; leek; onion; chive; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae as the type genus
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Garlic, the most potent member of the family called allium that includes onions, shallots, chives and leeks, known for hundreds, if not thousands of years as a tool to ward off evil, may have gained this reputation for its wide-ranging health benefits.
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It puts forward the idea that Earth is a globular allium and "pain and fear" are the lachrymatory agents that provoke all the tears.
Readers recommend songs about vegetables: The results Rob Fitzpatrick 2010
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In an effort to protect her flock, Sandrow planted a wide variety of feather-like foliage, ostrich ferns, corkscrew grass, tall flowering balls of purple allium and bristling shrubs of juniper and cyprus that camouflage the birds' exotic plumage thereby protecting them from the hawks circling above.
Gabrielle Selz: The Egg, Inside and Out Gabrielle Selz 2011
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Step Two We added a pop of white with allium scattered throughout the greenery at varying heights.
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Separately, sauté the shallots (the onion wannabe of the allium world).
Archive 2009-09-01 Laura 2009
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Photograph by Tara Donne for The Wall Street Journal, Food Styling by Martha Bernabe, Prop Styling by Angharad Bailey Mixing rosemary, dill, mint, white allium and scabiosa Step One Using a mix of leggy and dense herbs—rosemary, yellow flowering dill, mountain mint—build a framework of textures and fragrances.
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Chives, shallots, leeks—they are all considered varieties of onion from the Latin allium .
Anglo-Saxon On the Menu Henry Hitchings 2011
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When the fire's good and hot, run the allium up and down the grates with a fork to remove the residue.
The Big Grill Rachel Wharton 2011
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Separately, sauté the shallots (the onion wannabe of the allium world).
Family Recipes: Mary Jones' Shrimp Dish Laura 2009
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Some are small and tight and barely bigger than a golf ball, others sweet and juicy with an altogether softer tone, and some with only the merest hint of allium about them.
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