oriental garlic

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   a plant of eastern Asia; larger than Allium schoenoprasum

   Synonymsgarlic chiveChinese chiveAllium tuberosum

   Broaderalliaceous plant

   Partsgarlic chive

Questions about oriental garlic

What does oriental garlic mean?

oriental garlic means "a plant of eastern Asia; larger than Allium schoenoprasum".

What is another word for oriental garlic?

Close synonyms include garlic chive, Chinese chive, Allium tuberosum. 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 oriental garlic a common word?

oriental garlic 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.