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leek
Overview of noun leek
The noun leek has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. leek, scallion, Allium porrum -- (plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum)
2. leek -- (related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun leek
2 senses of leek
Sense 1
leek, scallion, Allium porrum
=> alliaceous plant
=> liliaceous plant
=> bulbous plant
=> vascular plant, tracheophyte
=> plant, flora, plant life
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
leek
=> vegetable, veggie
=> produce, green goods, green groceries, garden truck
=> food, solid food
=> solid
=> substance, matter
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun leek
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun leek
2 senses of leek
Sense 1
leek, scallion, Allium porrum
=> alliaceous plant
Sense 2
leek
=> vegetable, veggie
Antonyms of noun leek
Member Holonyms of noun leek
Substance Holonyms of noun leek
Part Holonyms of noun leek
1 of 2 senses of leek
Sense 2
leek
PART OF: leek, scallion, Allium porrum
Member Meronyms of noun leek
Substance Meronyms of noun leek
Part Meronyms of noun leek
1 of 2 senses of leek
Sense 1
leek, scallion, Allium porrum
HAS PART: leek
Meronyms of noun leek
1 of 2 senses of leek
Sense 1
leek, scallion, Allium porrum
HAS PART: leek
Holonyms of noun leek
1 of 2 senses of leek
Sense 2
leek
PART OF: leek, scallion, Allium porrum
Attributes of noun leek
Derived Forms of noun leek
Domain of noun leek
Domain Terms of noun leek
Familiarity of noun leek
leek used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun leek
2 senses of leek
Sense 1
leek, scallion, Allium porrum
> alliaceous plant
=> wild onion
=> wild leek, Levant garlic, kurrat, Allium ampeloprasum
=> Canada garlic, meadow leek, rose leek, Allium canadense
=> keeled garlic, Allium carinatum
=> onion, onion plant, Allium cepa
=> leek, scallion, Allium porrum
=> daffodil garlic, flowering onion, Naples garlic, Allium neopolitanum
=> few-flowered leek, Allium paradoxum
=> garlic, Allium sativum
=> sand leek, giant garlic, Spanish garlic, rocambole, Allium scorodoprasum
=> chives, chive, cive, schnittlaugh, Allium schoenoprasum
=> ramp, wild leek, Allium tricoccum
=> wild garlic, wood garlic, Ramsons, Allium ursinum
=> garlic chive, Chinese chive, Oriental garlic, Allium tuberosum
=> round-headed leek, Allium sphaerocephalum
=> three-cornered leek, triquetrous leek, Allium triquetrum
Sense 2
leek
> vegetable, veggie
=> julienne, julienne vegetable
=> raw vegetable, rabbit food
=> legume
=> potherb
=> greens, green, leafy vegetable
=> solanaceous vegetable
=> root vegetable
=> pieplant, rhubarb
=> cruciferous vegetable
=> squash
=> cucumber, cuke
=> artichoke, globe artichoke
=> artichoke heart
=> asparagus
=> bamboo shoot
=> onion
=> leek
=> cardoon
=> celery
=> gumbo, okra
=> mushroom
=> pumpkin
=> truffle, earthnut
=> plantain
=> fennel, Florence fennel, finocchio
Meronyms of noun leek
2 senses of leek
Sense 1
leek, scallion, Allium porrum
HAS PART: leek
=> alliaceous plant
=> liliaceous plant
=> bulbous plant
=> vascular plant, tracheophyte
HAS PART: vascular system
HAS PART: vessel, vas
HAS PART: vascular tissue
HAS PART: duct
HAS PART: vascular tissue
=> plant, flora, plant life
HAS PART: plant part, plant structure
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun leek
1 of 2 senses of leek
Sense 2
leek
PART OF: leek, scallion, Allium porrum
Grep of noun leek
few-flowered leek
japanese leek
lady's leek
leek
meadow leek
rose leek
round-headed leek
sand leek
three-cornered leek
triquetrous leek
wild leek
Grep of verb leek
sleek
Grep of adj leek
sleek
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