LEEK as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • related to onions
   • white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves
   Hypernyms(s) leek is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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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
   Synonym(s)
   • Allium porrum (what does Allium porrum mean?)
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   Hypernyms(s) leek is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • alliaceous plant (what does alliaceous plant mean?)