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Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun leek has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

leekn. [AS. leác; akin to D. look, G. lauch, OHG. louh, Icel. laukr, Sw. lök, Dan lög. Cf. Garlic.].
     A plant of the genus Allium (Allium Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion.  [1913 Webster]
Wild leek , in America, a plant (Allium tricoccum) with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

leek, n.
1 an alliaceous plant, Allium porrum, with flat overlapping leaves forming an elongated cylindrical bulb, used as food.
2 this as a Welsh national emblem.

Etymology
OE leac f. Gmc
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