Leek

[liːk] or [lik]

Definition

(noun.) related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves.

(noun.) plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum.

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Definition

(n.) A plant of the genus Allium (A. Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion.

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Definition

n. a well-known biennial species of the onion family esteemed for cooking—national emblem of Wales.—Eat the leek to be compelled to take back one's words or put up with insulting treatment—from the scene between Fluellen and Pistol in Henry V.

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