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Wild leek   /waɪld lik/   Listen
noun
Leek  n.  (Bot.) A plant of the genus Allium (Allium Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion.
Wild leek, in America, a plant (Allium tricoccum) with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves.






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"Wild leek" Quotes from Famous Books



... The wild leek and garlic flowers made dainty blue-prints, scarcely recognizable as coming from such humble family trees as the despised onion. Wild spikenard, with its crown of tiny white flowers, also reproduced beautifully in the blue-print. ...
— Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks • Lillian Elizabeth Roy



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