wild garlic

1. 1.

   pungent Old World weedy plant

   Synonymswood garlicRamsonsAllium ursinum

   Broaderalliaceous plant
2. 2.

   pungent Old World wild onion

   Synonymscrow garlicfalse garlicfield garlicstag's garlicAllium vineale

   Broaderwild onion

Questions about wild garlic

What does wild garlic mean?

wild garlic means "pungent Old World weedy plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wild garlic?

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

wild garlic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.