wild leek

Questions about wild leek

What does wild leek mean?

wild leek means "North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wild leek?

Close synonyms include ramp, Allium tricoccum, Levant garlic, kurrat, Allium ampeloprasum. 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 leek a common word?

wild leek 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.