Search Result for "allium porrum":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum;
[syn: leek, scallion, Allium porrum]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Leek \Leek\ (l[=e]k), n. [AS. le['a]c; akin to D. look, G. lauch, OHG. louh, Icel. laukr, Sw. l["o]k, Dan l["o]g. Cf. Garlic.] (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. [1913 Webster] Wild leek, in America, a plant (Allium tricoccum) with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Allium porrum n 1: plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum [syn: leek, scallion, Allium porrum]