Sentence examples for wild leek from inspiring English sources
noun
A perennial wild onion native to eastern North America, Allium tricoccum, with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves.
The ramp, a kind of wild leek, hardly exists west of the Mississippi.
This weed is a close cousin of the wild leek, found in woodlands.
Sprouting all around it are maroon scapes, the stems of wild leek flowers that will soon bloom.
Already there are floral buds on blue cohosh, silver-stained leaves of Virginia waterleaf and strappy blades of wild leek.
Indeed, a common notion for the origin of the city's name is an Algonquian word for a wild leek (or onion) plant that grew locally.
Wild leek leaves have shrunken to papery strips, and we discover something that had been hidden underneath one patch: a raccoon skull missing its bottom jaw.
At my feet, the leaves of wild leeks undulate like a tempestuous sea.
My feet sink into the soil, stirring up the oniony smell of wild leeks below.
"As far as we know," she said, "wild leeks are not being overharvested in New York".
So I'm rediscovering it, experimenting with crab apples and wild leeks and such.
"It drives them crazy," said Mrs. Levine, as she stopped to smell some wild leeks.
