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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers;
[syn: ramp, wild leek, Allium tricoccum]

2. coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely naturalized;
[syn: wild leek, Levant garlic, kurrat, Allium ampeloprasum]


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):

wild leek n 1: North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers [syn: ramp, wild leek, Allium tricoccum] 2: coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely naturalized [syn: wild leek, Levant garlic, kurrat, Allium ampeloprasum]