nodding onion

Questions about nodding onion

What is another word for nodding onion?

It depends which nodding onion you mean. In the sense “widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers”, the synonyms are nodding wild onion, lady's leek, Allium cernuum. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of nodding onion?

WordNet records no antonym for nodding onion. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for nodding onion come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of nodding onion

• Full entry for nodding onionAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for nodding onionWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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