japanese leek

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   Asiatic onion with slender bulbs; used as early green onions

   SynonymsWelsh onionAllium fistulosum

   Broaderonion

Questions about japanese leek

What does japanese leek mean?

japanese leek means "Asiatic onion with slender bulbs; used as early green onions".

What is another word for japanese leek?

Close synonyms include Welsh onion, Allium fistulosum. 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 japanese leek a common word?

japanese leek 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.