ALLIUM ACUMINATUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Allium acuminatum mean? 

• ALLIUM ACUMINATUM (noun)
  The noun ALLIUM ACUMINATUM has 1 sense:

1. a common North American wild onion with a strong onion odor and an umbel of pink flowers atop a leafless stalk; British Columbia to California and Arizona and east to Wyoming and Colorado

  Familiarity information: ALLIUM ACUMINATUM used as a noun is very rare.

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• ALLIUM ACUMINATUM (noun)

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Meaning:

A common North American wild onion with a strong onion odor and an umbel of pink flowers atop a leafless stalk; British Columbia to California and Arizona and east to Wyoming and Colorado

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Allium acuminatum; Hooker's onion

Hypernyms ("Allium acuminatum" is a kind of...):

wild onion (any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wild)

Holonyms ("Allium acuminatum" is a member of...):

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