allium cernuum

1. 1.

   widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers

   Synonymsnodding onionnodding wild onionlady's leek

   Broaderwild onion

Questions about allium cernuum

What does allium cernuum mean?

allium cernuum means "widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers".

What is another word for allium cernuum?

Close synonyms include nodding onion, nodding wild onion, lady's leek. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is allium cernuum a common word?

allium cernuum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.