Definitions for Allium

Allium al·li·um

Spelling: [al-ee-uh m]
IPA: /ˈæl i əm/

Allium is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in Allium (aillmu).

Definitions for Allium

noun

  1. any bulbous plant belonging to the genus Allium, of the amaryllis family, having an onion odor and flowers in a round cluster, including the onion, leek, shallot, garlic, and chive.
  2. a substance occurring in garlic bulbs that has antibiotic properties.

Origin of Allium

1800-10; New Latin, Latin: garlic

Examples for Allium

There are several kinds of Muilla, much like Brodiaea and very much like allium, but with no onion taste or smell.

But underneath their covert, in the shade, grey periwinkles wind among the snowy drift of allium.

The Mohammedans do not seem to have reverenced the allium tribe.

But why should not all the other allium species be propagated by planting the bulbs?

According to Roxburgh,243 allium ascalonicum is much cultivated in India.

Moly seems to have been allium moly, one of the onion or garlic family.

A species of allium, with purple flowers and broad strap-shaped leaves, was the most plentiful of all.

From all these facts I am led to believe that allium ascalonicum is not a species.

In Tennessee and West Virginia, festivals are held to celebrate allium tricoccum, which are also known as wild leeks.

From the bruised bulbs or cloves of allium sativum, or garlic.

Word Value for Allium
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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