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wild leek

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English

Syllables
wild leek
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A perennial wild onion native to eastern North America, Allium tricoccum, with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves.

American usage

noun

A wild onion native to southern Europe and western Asia, cultivated and consequently naturalized in many other places, Allium ampeloprasum.

Usage

Inflected Forms

wild leeks (plural)

Synonyms

A. tricoccum A. ampeloprasum levant garlic kurrat allium ampeloprasum ramp allium tricoccum

Questions

What does wild leek mean?
A perennial wild onion native to eastern North America, Allium tricoccum, with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves.

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