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WILD GARLIC

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pungent Old World wild onion

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pungent Old World weedy plant

Synonyms:

Allium ursinum; Ramsons; wild garlic; wood garlic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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