Allium

Definition: Allium

Allium

Noun

1. Large genus of perennial and biennial pungent bulbous plants: garlic; leek; onion; chive; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae as the type genus.

Etymology: Allium \Al"li*um\, noun. [Latin expression, garlic.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Allium

Domain	Definitions
Botanical	Presently unknown in the wild, onion has been used more than 4000 years. Garlic, A. sativum L., is regarded as antiseptic, bactericidal, carminative, cordiment, diaphoretic, emmenagogic, expectorant, rubefacient, stimulant, stomachic, and vermifugal; it is used in home remedies for bronchitis, colds, earaches, hysteria, nervous conditions and toothache. The juice can be used to mend china. Oil from the seeds is applied externally to rheumatics. Garlic oil, mixed with cebo de Cuba, is used like a mustard plaster in Panama. Onions are eaten raw or cooked and used for seasoning pickles, curries, stews, "sancochos", etc.(!). They are used as a home remedy for bronchitis, catarrh, colic, dropsy, fever, flatulence, hangover, and scurvy. They are regarded as aphrodisiac, carminative, emmenagogic, and soporific when used internally. They are used externally to treat earaches and insect bites. Maje Choco women, having difficulty delivering, receive a stomach massage with cooking oil mixed with oniion, garlic, oregano, and hierba poleo (perhaps Kallstroemia). Some Indians believe they also repel snakes; the odor repels some humans, so it might actually repel snakes. My Cuna guide from Nargana rubbed his legs with sliced onion to "prevent snakebite" (!). In Western Panama, onions are placed in the eaves of bohiuos as a bat repellent (!); a bat and snake repellent would be useful morale builders for the newcomer in Panama. (references)
Health	A genus of liliaceous herbs containing onions (Allium cepa), garlic (Allium sativum), and others; many produce pungent, often bacteriostatic and physiologically active compounds and are used as food, condiment, and medicament, the latter in traditional medicine. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Allium

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Allium is the wild onion genus of herbs belonging to the family Alliaceae and including garlic and chives.

Species

A. aaseae South Idaho onion
A. abramsii Abrams' allium
A. acuminatum tapertip onion
A. aflatunense
A. akaka
A. altaicum
A. ampeloprasum broadleaf wild leek
A. amplectens narrowleaf onion
A. anceps twinleaf onion
A. angulare
A. angulosum mouse garlic
A. ascalonicum wild onion
A. atropurpureum purple-flowered onion
A. atrorubens darkred onion
A. bigelovii Bigelow's onion
A. bisceptrum twincrest onion; aspen onion
A. bodeanum
A. bolanderi Bolander's onion
A. brandegei Brandegee's onion
A. brevistylum shortstyle onion
A. bulgaricum Bulgarian onion
A. burdickii narrowleaf wild leek
A. burlewii Burlew's onion
A. campanulatum dusky onion
A. canadense meadow garlic; wild garlic
A. carinatum keeled garlic
A. carolinianum
A. cepa garden onion
A. cernuum nodding onion; wild onion; lady's leek
A. chinense rakkyo
A. christophii star of Persia; Persian onion
A. columbianum Columbian onion
A. condensatum
A. constrictum Grand Coulee onion
A. coryi yellowflower onion
A. cratericola Cascade onion
A. crenulatum Olympic onion
A. crispum crinkled onion
A. cupani
A. cuthbertii striped garlic
A. denticulatum toothed wild onion
A. diabolense wild onion
A. dichlamydeum coastal onion
A. dictuon Blue Mountain onion
A. douglasii Douglas' onion
A. dregeanum
A. drummondii Drummond's onion; prairie onion
A. elmendorfii Elmendorf's onion
A. falcifolium scytheleaf onion
A. fibrillum Blue Mountain onion
A. fimbriatum fringed onion
A. fistulosum Welsh onion
A. galanthum
A. geyeri Geyer's onion
A. glandulosum gland onion
A. gooddingii Goodding's onion
A. grayi
A. haematochiton redskin onion
A. hickmanii Hickman's onion
A. hoffmanii beegum onion
A. hookeri
A. howellii Howell's onion
A. hyalinum glassy onion
A. jepsonii Jepson's onion
A. kunthii Kunth's onion
A. kurrat Egyptian leek
A. lacunosum pitted onion
A. ledebourianum
A. lemmonii Lemmon's onion
A. macleanii
A. macropetalum largeflower wild onion; desert onion
A. macrostemon
A. macrum rock onion
A. madidum swamp onion
A. marvinii
A. maximowiczii
A. membranaceum papery onion
A. moly golden garlic; lily leek
A. monanthum
A. monticola San Bernardino Mountain onion
A. munzii Munz's allium
A. neapolitanum white garlic; daffodil garlic; flowering onion
A. nevadense Nevada onion
A. nevii Nevius' garlic
A. nigrum black garlic
A. obliquum twistedleaf garlic
A. obtusum red Sierran onion
A. odorum Chinese chives
A. oleraceum field garlic
A. orientale
A. oschaninii
A. oxyphilum lillydale onion
A. paniculatum
A. paradoxum few-flowered leek
A. parishii Parish's onion
A. parryi Parry's fringed onion
A. parvum small onion
A. passeyi Passey's onion
A. pendulinum
A. peninsulare Mexicali onion
A. perdulce plains onion
A. platycaule broadstemmed onion
A. pleianthum manyflower onion
A. plummerae Tanners Canyon onion
A. porrum garden leek
A. praecox early onion
A. przewalskianum
A. punctum dotted onion
A. ramosum Chinese chives; fragrant-flowered garlic
A. robinsonii Robinson's onion
A. roseum rosy garlic
A. rubellum
A. ruhmerianum
A. runyonii Runyon's onion
A. sacculiferum
A. sanbornii Sanborn's onion
A. sativum cultivated garlic
A. schoenoprasum wild chives; cive; schnittlaugh
A. schubertii Schubert's garlic
A. scilloides fragile onion
A. scorodoprasum sand leek; rocambole
A. semenovii
A. senescens German garlic
A. serra jeweled onion
A. serratum pompom onion
A. sharsmithiae
A. shevockii Spanish needle onion
A. simillimum simil onion
A. siskiyouense Siskiyou onion
A. speculae Little River Canyon onion
A. sphaerocephalum round-headed leek; round-headed garlic
A. splendens miyama-rakkyo
A. stellatum autumn onion; prairie onion
A. stipitatum
A. stracheyi
A. suaveolens
A. subhirsutum
A. taquetii
A. textile textile onion
A. thunbergii
A. tolmiei Tolm's onion
A. tribracteatum threebract onion
A. tricoccum wild leek; ramp
A. triquetrum threecorner leek; three-cornered leek
A. tuberosum Chinese chives; garlic chives; oriental garlic
A. tuolumnense serpentine onion
A. unifolium oneleaf onion; one-leaved onion
A. ursinum ramsons; buckrams
A. validum Pacific onion; swamp onion
A. victorialis victory onion; alpine leek
A. vineale wild garlic; crow garlic; stag's garlic
A. virguncule
A. wallichii jimbur
A. yosemitense Yosemite onion

Source

GardenWeb's Hortiplex Database 2003-11-16

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Allium."

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Synonym: Allium

Synonym: genus Allium (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Allium

English words defined with "Allium": Alliaceae, Allium acuminatum, Allium ampeloprasum, Allium ascalonicum, Allium canadense, Allium carinatum, Allium cepa, Allium cepa aggregatum, Allium cepa viviparum, Allium cernuum, Allium fistulosum, Allium haematochiton, Allium neopolitanum, Allium paradoxum, Allium porrum, Allium sativum, Allium schoenoprasum, Allium scorodoprasum, Allium sphaerocephalum, Allium tricoccum, Allium triquetrum, Allium tuberosum, Allium ursinum, Allium vineale ♦ brodiaea ♦ Chinese chive, Cibol ♦ family Alliaceae ♦ garlic chive, genus Allium ♦ leek ♦ Moly ♦ Oriental garlic ♦ Ramson ♦ scallion ♦ Wild onion. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Allium": ANTHURIUM ACUTANGULUM, ANTIRHEUMATIC ♦ TOOTHACHE PLANTS. (references)

Etymologies containing "Allium": Allyl. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Allium" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (Agu, Garlic, leek, Onion).

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Commercial Usage: Allium

Domain	Title
Books	A Review of Allium Section (reference) Allium Crop Science: Recent Advances (reference) Garlic: The Science and Therapeutic Application of Allium Sativum L. and Related Species (reference) Phyllom Morphogenese Bei Allium Und Juncus Unter Besonderer Beruecksichtigung Der Morphogenese (reference) Revisiâon del genero Allium (Liliaceae) en la Penâinsula Ibâerica e Islas Baleares (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Allium Improvement Newsletter (reference) (more periodical examples)

Consumer Goods	Bodum Allium Garlic Press (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
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Image Slideshow: Allium

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Photo Album: Allium

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Allium bolanderi var. mirabile, commonly known as Bolander's Onion.Credit: Russ Holmes.		Medium shot of wildflower (genus Allium).Credit: John Craig.
	Medium shot of Tolmie's Onion, Allium Tolmiei, wildflowers.Credit: John Craig.		Medium shot of Allium falcifolium.Credit: John Craig.
	Wild Onion (Allium sp.) found along Crowfoot Road.Credit: Terry Tuttle.		Farshot of Tolmie's Onion, Allium Tolmiei, wildflowers.Credit: John Craig.
	Farshot of Tolmie's Onion, Allium Tolmiei, wildflowers.Credit: John Craig.		Closeup of Tolmie's Onion, Allium Tolmiei, wildflowers.Credit: John Craig.
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Usage Frequency: Allium

"Allium" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Allium" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	50%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	50%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Allium

Expressions using "Allium": allium acuminatum ♦ allium ampeloprasum ♦ Allium Ascalonicum ♦ allium Ascalonium ♦ allium canadense ♦ allium carinatum ♦ allium cepa ♦ allium cepa aggregatum ♦ allium cepa viviparum ♦ allium cernuum ♦ Allium fistulosum ♦ allium haematochiton ♦ Allium Moly ♦ allium neopolitanum ♦ allium paradoxum ♦ allium Porrum ♦ Allium proliferum ♦ allium sativum ♦ Allium Schoenoprasum ♦ Allium Scorodoprasum ♦ allium sphaerocephalum ♦ Allium tricoccum ♦ allium triquetrum ♦ allium tuberosum ♦ Allium ursinum ♦ allium vineale ♦ genus Allium. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Allium

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
allium	151	allium tuberosum	4
allium fistulosum	31	abstract allium fistulosum	4
allium cepa	31	allium christophii	4
allium sativum	19	allium neapolitanum	3
allium flower	15	allium common name spp	3
allium bulb	14	allium common name sativum	3
allium schoenoprasum	11	allium atropurpureum	2
aberration allium assay chromosome	8	allium gladiator	2
allium globemaster	7	allium tricoccum	2
allium plant	7	allium purple sensation	2
allium giganteum	6	allium canadense	2
allium giant	5	allium onion	2
allium ursinum	5	allium oreophilum	2
allium moly	5	allium root tip	2
allium cernuum	4	allium cepa homeopathy	2
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Modern Translations: Allium

Language		Translations for "Allium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		葱属. (various references)

German		lauch (garlic, leek, leeks). (various references)

Hebrew		חסית. (various references)

Pig Latin		alliumay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Allium

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Allium": alliums. (additional references)
	Words ending with "Allium": gallium, pallium, prothallium, thallium. (additional references)
	Words containing "Allium": galliums, palliums, thalliums. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Allium"

Words rhyming with "Allium" (pronounced 'Al"li*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum, Ascidiarium. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Allium

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-l-l-m-u"
	-1 letter: maill, miaul, mulla.
	-2 letters: alum, lima, mail, mall, maul, mill, mull.
	-3 letters: ail, aim, all, ami, amu, ill, lam, lum, mil.
	-4 letters: ai, al, am, la, li, ma, mi, mu, um.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-l-l-m-u"
	+1 letter: alliums, gallium, luminal, pallium.
	+2 letters: aimfully, allodium, alluvium, galliums, mulligan, palliums, thallium.
	+3 letters: alluviums, mullahism, mulligans, multilane, multiwall, musically, palladium, pluralism, thalliums, umbilical.
	+4 letters: altocumuli, animalcula, animalcule, bimanually, callithump, calmodulin, emulsoidal, illuminant, illuminate, illuminati, maquillage, mullahisms, multiaxial, multiflash, multifocal, multilayer, multimodal, multiplant, multipolar, palladiums, pluralisms, qualmishly, sublimable, subliminal, ultimately, umbilicals.
	+5 letters: animalcules, animalculum, aspergillum, azimuthally, bimolecular, bullmastiff, callithumps, calmodulins, caudillismo, emulatively, gallimaufry, illuminable, illuminance, illuminants, illuminated, illuminates, illuminator, implausible, implausibly, lactalbumin, maliciously, manipulable, maquillages, masculinely, matutinally, mercurially, monolingual, multibarrel, multibladed, multicausal, multifamily, multinomial, multiplayer, multiracial, multivalent, municipally, neurilemmal, numerically, prothallium, rambouillet, ultrasimple, umbrellaing, unclimbable.
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