Ramsons

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A wild relative of chives, of species Allium ursinum, having edible leaves and roots. plural, plural-normally
  2. 2
    pungent Old World weedy plant wordnet

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wild garlicwood garlicallium ursinumbear garlicbear's garlicbroad-leaved garlic

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"The salmon was seasoned with ramsons and lemongrass."

Etymology

From Middle English ramsons, ramsens, rampsons, ramesones, ramsouns, plural of Middle English ramson, ramsen (“wild garlic”), reinterpreted as a singular form, from Old English hramsan, nominative plural of Old English hramsa (“wild garlic”), from Proto-West Germanic *hramusō, from Proto-Germanic *hramusô (“onion; leek”), from Proto-Indo-European *kremus-, *kermus- (“wild garlic; onion”).

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allium ursinum

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