Definition of Allium. Meaning of Allium. Synonyms of Allium

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Definition of Allium

Allium
Allium Al"li*um, n. [L., garlic.] (bot.) A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc.

Meaning of Allium from wikipedia

- Allium is a large genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants with around 1000 accepted species, making Allium the largest genus in the family Amaryllidaceae...
- Chives, scientific name Allium schoenoprasum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae that produces edible leaves and flowers. A perennial...
- An onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated...
- Allium tuberosum (garlic chives, Oriental garlic, Asian chives, Chinese chives, Chinese l****) is a species of plant native to the Chinese province of Shanxi...
- A l**** is a vegetable, a cultivar of Allium ampeloprasum, the broadleaf wild l**** (syn. Allium porrum). The edible part of the plant is a bundle of leaf...
- Allium ursinum, known as wild garlic, ramsons, cowl****es, cows's l****, cowl****, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear l****, Eurasian wild garlic...
- Allium tricoc**** (commonly known as ramp, ramps, ramson, wild l****, wood l****, or wild garlic) is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the amaryllis...
- Allium chinense (also known as Chinese onion, Chinese scallion, glittering chive, ****anese scallion, Kiangsi scallion, and Oriental onion) is an edible...
- shallot was classified as a separate species, Allium ascaloni****. The taxon was synonymized with Allium cepa (the common onion) in 2010, as the difference...
- Allium vineale (wild garlic, onion gr****, crow garlic or stag's garlic) is a perennial, bulb-forming species of wild onion, native to Europe, northwestern...