WILD GARLIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild garlic mean? 

• WILD GARLIC (noun)
  The noun WILD GARLIC has 2 senses:

1. pungent Old World weedy plant

2. pungent Old World wild onion

  Familiarity information: WILD GARLIC used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILD GARLIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pungent Old World weedy plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Allium ursinum; Ramsons; wild garlic; wood garlic

Hypernyms ("wild garlic" is a kind of...):

alliaceous plant (bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pungent Old World wild onion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Allium vineale; crow garlic; false garlic; field garlic; stag's garlic; wild garlic

Hypernyms ("wild garlic" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

He came back with a handful of wild garlic from the box waiting in the hall, but which had not been opened, and placed the flowers amongst the others on and around the bed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He went to and fro, as if patrolling the house, and was never out of sight of the room where Lucy lay in her coffin, strewn with the wild garlic flowers, which sent, through the odour of lily and rose, a heavy, overpowering smell into the night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)