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Alliaceous

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Adjective

1. alliaceous

of or pertaining to the botanical genus Allium

Example Sentences:
'onions, leeks, garlic, chives are alliaceous plants'

2. alliaceous

smelling of onions or garlic

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Alliaceous

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adjective
1. 
of or relating to Allium, a genus of plants that have a strong onion or garlic smell and often have bulbs: family Alliaceae. The genus occurs in the N hemisphere and includes onion, garlic, leek, chive, and shallot
2. 
tasting or smelling like garlic or onions
3. 
of, relating to, or belonging to the Alliaceae, a family of flowering plants that includes the genus Allium

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Alliaceous

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adjective
1. 
of a group of strong-smelling bulb plants of the lily family, including the onion, garlic, etc.
2. 
having the smell or taste of onions or garlic

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Alliaceous

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adj.
Of or resembling onion, garlic, or similar plants of the genus Allium, particularly in taste and smell.

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