GENUS ALLIUM Synonyms

• bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves

• aromatic bulb used as seasoning

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

• related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves

• the bulb of an onion plant

• bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb

• an aromatic flavorful vegetable

• aggregate bulb of the multiplier onion

• type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning

• small mild-flavored onion-like or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning

• large genus of perennial and biennial pungent bulbous plants: garlic; leek; onion; chive; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae as the type genus