rush leek
now rare
noun
Chives, Allium schoenoprasum; = rush garlic.
- Apparently re-formed in the 16th cent.In recent use only as a translation of the specific epithet schoenoprasum..
Origin
Old English; earliest use found in Cleopatra Glossary. With later use compare Dutch bieslook (Middle Dutch biislōc; 1554 in Dodoens as †biesloock), lit. ‘rush leek’.
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