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Allium  n.  (bot.) A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc.






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"Allium" Quotes from Famous Books



... of woven light or luminous haze. When the wind blows their branches all one way, they ripple like a sea of silver. But underneath their covert, in the shade, grey periwinkles wind among the snowy drift of allium. The narcissus sends its arrowy fragrance through the air, while, far and wide, red anemones burn like fire, with interchange of blue and lilac buds, white arums, orchises, and pink gladiolus. Wandering there, and seeing the pale flowers, stars white and ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds

... pungent and concentrated that an ounce of it will represent the essence of forty pounds of garlic. This oil is a compound of sulphur, carbon, and hydrogen, and is called sulphide of allyl, because of its origin in the allium tribe. It is the more volatile, sulphurous fumes of this oil which ascend as an onion is cut that cause the eyes to water, just as sulphur fumes do anywhere. It is the less volatile portion of the oil which gives such permanence and adhesiveness to the onion odour as to render a knife that has ...
— Storyology - Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore • Benjamin Taylor



Words linked to "Allium" :   alliaceous plant, Allium cernuum, Allium tricoccum, Hooker's onion, Allium vineale, Allium porrum, Allium ampeloprasum, Allium neopolitanum, Allium triquetrum, lily family, Allium tuberosum, Allium cepa viviparum, alliaceous, Allium fistulosum, Allium ursinum, Allium sativum, Allium schoenoprasum, Liliaceae, Allium haematochiton, Allium scorodoprasum, Allium cepa aggregatum, genus Allium, Allium ascalonicum, Allium paradoxum, family Liliaceae



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