Definition of leeks Leeks
/liˈks/ - [leeks] -
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Wiktionary 
- leeks (Noun)
Plural of leek.
Part of speech
🔤- leeks, noun, plural of leek.
WordNet
NounPlural: leeks |
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| leek - related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves | ||
| veg, veggie, vegetable edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | ||
| leek - plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum | ||
| scallion, Allium porrum | ||
| alliaceous plant bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odor | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- leek (n.)
A plant of the genus Allium (A. Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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leek
A vegetable (Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum) having a bulb and long leaves and with a milder flavour than the onion. -
leek
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Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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leek
lēk, n. a well-known biennial species of the onion family, esteemed for cooking—national emblem of Wales.—Eat the leek, to be compelled to take back one's words or put up with insulting treatment—from the scene between Fluellen and Pistol in Henry V. [A.S. leác, a leek, a plant, present also in Char-lock, Gar-lic, Hem-lock.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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leek
The Welsh emblem, in consequence of a command from Dewi, or David, afterwards archbishop of St. David’s, in 519. On the day that King Arthur won a great victory over the Saxons, Dewi is said to have ordered the soldiers to place a leek in their caps.
Wikipedia 
- Leek is a vegetable. It belongs to the same genus as the onion and garlic. It can be used for cooking.
Part of speech
🔤- leek, noun, singular of leeks.
