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LEEK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("leek" is a kind of...):
veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)
Holonyms ("leek" is a part of...):
Allium porrum; leek; scallion (plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
Synonyms:
Allium porrum; leek; scallion
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("leek" is a kind of...):
alliaceous plant (bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odor)
Meronyms (parts of "leek"):
leek (related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves)
