alliaceous plant

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alliaceous plant - bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odorliliaceous plant - plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuberAllium, genus Allium - large genus of perennial and biennial pungent bulbous plants: garlic; leek; onion; chive; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae as the type genuswild onion - any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wildAllium ampeloprasum, kurrat, Levant garlic, wild leek - coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely naturalizedAllium canadense, Canada garlic, meadow leek, rose leek - North American bulbous plantAllium carinatum, keeled garlic - Eurasian bulbous plantAllium cepa, onion plant, onion - bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulbAllium porrum, leek, scallion - plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasumAllium neopolitanum, daffodil garlic, flowering onion, Naples garlic - European onion with white flowersAllium paradoxum, few-flowered leek - leek producing bulbils instead of flowers; Russia and IranAllium sativum, garlic - bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored clovesAllium scorodoprasum, giant garlic, rocambole, sand leek, Spanish garlic - European leek cultivated and used like leeksAllium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, cive, schnittlaugh - perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoningAllium tricoccum, wild leek, ramp - North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowersAllium ursinum, Ramsons, wild garlic, wood garlic - pungent Old World weedy plantAllium tuberosum, Chinese chive, garlic chive, Oriental garlic - a plant of eastern Asia; larger than Allium schoenoprasumAllium sphaerocephalum, round-headed leek - Old World leek with a spherical bulbAllium triquetrum, three-cornered leek, triquetrous leek - European leek naturalized in Great Britain; leaves are triangular