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Webster 1913 Edition

(lēk)

Noun.

[AS.

leác

; akin to D.

look

, G.

lauch

, OHG.

louh

, Icel.

laukr

, Sw.

lök

, Dan

lög

. Cf.

(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.

Wild leek

in America, a plant (

Allium tricoccum

) with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves.

Noun.

A plant of the genus Allium, with a bulbous root. Numb. 11.