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onion grass

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English

Syllables
onion -grass
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Species of Melica, especially Melica bulbosa and Melica subulata.

American usage; Uncountable

noun

Any of several species of non-native grasses of the genus Romulea, including Romulea rosea.

Australian usage; Uncountable

noun

Wild or feral chives, garlic, or other species with grass-like leaves in the genus Allium, particularly Allium vineale, a wild herb native to Europe and western Asia, naturalised elsewhere; a common lawn weed.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Usage

Inflected Forms

onion grasses (plural)

Synonyms

crow garlic field garlic wild onion wild scallion wild garlic

Questions

What does onion grass mean?
Species of Melica, especially Melica bulbosa and Melica subulata.

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