allium ursinum

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   pungent Old World weedy plant

   Synonymswild garlicwood garlicRamsons

   Broaderalliaceous plant

Questions about allium ursinum

What does allium ursinum mean?

allium ursinum means "pungent Old World weedy plant".

What is another word for allium ursinum?

Close synonyms include wild garlic, wood garlic, Ramsons. 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 ursinum a common word?

allium ursinum 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.