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Princeton's WordNet
leek, scallion, Allium porrumnoun
plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
leeknoun
related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves
Wiktionary
leeknoun
The vegetable Allium ampeloprasum variety porrum, of the lily family, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Leeknoun
Its flower consists of six pedals, and is shaped, as it were, like a bell; in the center arises the pointal, which afterward becomes a roundish fruit, divided into three cells, which contain roundish seeds: to these notes may be added, the stamina are generally broad and flat, ending in three capillaments, of which the middle one is furnished with a chive; the flowers are also gathered into almost globular bunches: the roots are long, cylindrical, and coated, the coats ending in plain leaves. Philip Miller
Etymology: leac , Saxon; loock, Dutch; leechk, Erse.
Know’st thou Fluellen? —— Yes.
—— Tell him I’ll knock his leek about his pate,
Upon St. David’s day. William Shakespeare, Henry V.Leek to the Welsh, to Dutchmen butter’s dear. John Gay.
We use acrid plants inwardly and outwardly in gangreens; in the scurvy, water-cresses, horse-radish, garlick, or leek pottage. John Floyer, on Humours.
Wikipedia
Leek
The leek is a vegetable, a cultivar of Allium ampeloprasum, the broadleaf wild leek (syn. Allium porrum). The edible part of the plant is a bundle of leaf sheaths that is sometimes erroneously called a stem or stalk. The genus Allium also contains the onion, garlic, shallot, scallion, chive, and Chinese onion. Three closely related vegetables, elephant garlic, kurrat and Persian leek or tareh, are also cultivars of A. ampeloprasum, although different in their uses as food.
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leek
A leek is a plant of the onion family that is used in cooking for its long, white stalk that has a sweet, onion-like flavor. It has flat, green leaves and a bulbous root but only the white and light green parts are typically consumed. Leeks are commonly used in soups, stews, and other dishes for added flavor.
Webster Dictionary
Leeknoun
a plant of the genus Allium (A. Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion
Etymology: [AS. lec; akin to D. look, G. lauch, OHG. louh, Icel. laukr, Sw. lk, Dan lg. Cf. Garlic.]
Wikidata
Leek
The leek is a vegetable that belongs, along with onion and garlic, to the genus Allium, currently placed in family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Allioideae. Historically many scientific names were used for leeks, which are now treated as cultivars of Allium ampeloprasum. Two related vegetables, elephant garlic and kurrat, are also cultivars of A. ampeloprasum, although different in their uses as food. The edible part of the leek plant is a bundle of leaf sheaths that is sometimes erroneously called a stem or stalk.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Leek
lēk, n. a well-known biennial species of the onion family, esteemed for cooking—national emblem of Wales.—Eat the leek, to be compelled to take back one's words or put up with insulting treatment—from the scene between Fluellen and Pistol in Henry V. [A.S. leác, a leek, a plant, present also in Char-lock, Gar-lic, Hem-lock.]
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
leek
The Welsh emblem, in consequence of a command from Dewi, or David, afterwards archbishop of St. David’s, in 519. On the day that King Arthur won a great victory over the Saxons, Dewi is said to have ordered the soldiers to place a leek in their caps.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
LEEK
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Leek is ranked #9991 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Leek surname appeared 3,228 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Leek.
85.2% or 2,752 total occurrences were White.
9.7% or 315 total occurrences were Black.
1.6% or 53 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.5% or 51 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.4% or 46 total occurrences were Asian.
0.3% or 11 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Anagrams for leek »
keel
kele
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of leek in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of leek in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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- كراثArabic
- празBulgarian
- porroCatalan, Valencian
- pór zahradní, pórekCzech
- cenhinenWelsh
- porreDanish
- Porree, LauchGerman
- agumetakuEwe
- πράσοGreek
- poreoEsperanto
- poro, porro, puerroSpanish
- porruBasque
- تره فرنگیPersian
- purjosipuli, purjoFinnish
- purraFaroese
- poireau, porreau, poirette, poirée, porrée, asperge du pauvreFrench
- cainneannIrish
- creamh-gàrraidhScottish Gaelic
- כרישהHebrew
- powoHaitian Creole
- póréhagymaHungarian
- poreloIdo
- blaðlaukurIcelandic
- porroItalian
- 葱Japanese
- ស្លឹកខ្ទឹម, ខ្ទឹមស្លឹកKhmer
- 파Korean
- porrumLatin
- PorrettLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- rikiMāori
- празMacedonian
- kurrataMaltese
- porrei, preiDutch
- purreløk, purreNorwegian
- zhigaagawanzhOjibwe, Ojibwa
- porPolish
- alho-porro, alho-poró, porroPortuguese
- prazRomanian
- порей, лук-порейRussian
- пoрилук, праса, prasa, praziluk, празилук, porilukSerbo-Croatian
- porSlovene
- preshiAlbanian
- purjolökSwedish
- กระเทียมต้นThai
- pırasaTurkish
- цибуля-порейUkrainian
- کراثUrdu
- tỏi tâyVietnamese
- poret, porete, poreaWalloon
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