(n)plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum, Syn.Allium porrum, scallion
n. [ AS. leác; akin to D. look, G. lauch, OHG. louh, Icel. laukr, Sw. lök, Dan lög. Cf. Garlic. ] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Allium (Allium Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion. [ 1913 Webster ]
Wild leek , in America, a plant (Allium tricoccum) with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]
[kuri-ku](n) (1) cleek (golf - type of fairway wood); (2) creek; waterway, including irrigation or drainage canal; (3) clique; (4) creak; (P)#15814[Add to Longdo]