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n. An edible plant (Allium porrum) related to the onion and having a white, slender bulb and flat, dark-green leaves.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. One of several species of the genus Allium; especially, a biennial culinary plant, Allium Porrum.

n. Polytelis barrabandi, a small parrot, green with a scarlet breast. Also called green-leek.

n. related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves

n. plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum

"When we say that the leek is the asparagus of the poor, that's not nice to the leek, the asparagus or the poor man."

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