wild onion

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wild onion - any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wild 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 alliaceous plant - bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odor 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