Definitions for alliums

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alliums al·li·um

Spelling: [al-ee-uh m]

IPA: /ˈæl i əm/

Alliums is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in alliums (aillmsu).

Definitions for alliums

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 alliums

1800-10; New Latin, Latin: garlic

Examples for alliums

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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