flowering onion

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   European onion with white flowers

   Synonymsdaffodil garlicNaples garlicAllium neopolitanum

   Broaderalliaceous plant

Questions about flowering onion

What does flowering onion mean?

flowering onion means "European onion with white flowers".

What is another word for flowering onion?

Close synonyms include daffodil garlic, Naples garlic, Allium neopolitanum. 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 flowering onion a common word?

flowering onion 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.