WILD ONION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild onion mean? 

• WILD ONION (noun)
  The noun WILD ONION has 1 sense:

1. any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wild

  Familiarity information: WILD ONION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILD ONION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wild

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild onion"):

Allium acuminatum; Hooker's onion (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)

Allium cernuum; lady's leek; nodding onion; nodding wild onion (widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers)

Allium vineale; crow garlic; false garlic; field garlic; stag's garlic; wild garlic (pungent Old World wild onion)

Holonyms ("wild onion" 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)