Word Meanings - ALLIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc.

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• ONION
  A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium , having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus. Onion fish , the grenadier. -- Onion
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• GARLICKY
  Like or containing garlic.
• GARLIC
  A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• ONIONSKIN
  A kind of thin translucent paper with a glossy finish.
• CHIVE
  A filament of a stamen.
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• SEA ONION
  The officinal squill. See Squill.
• RONION; RONYON
  A mangy or scabby creature. "Aroint thee, with!" the rump-fed ronyon cries. Shak.
• PILLED-GARLIC
  See PILGARLIC
• PILGARLIC
  One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.
• ARCHIVE
  The place in which public records or historic documents are kept. Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. Gov. of Tongue. 2. pl. (more info) 1. pl.