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ramsons
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ramsons has 1 sense
- ramsons(n = noun.plant) allium ursinum, wild garlic, wood garlic - pungent Old World weedy plant; Array is a kind of alliaceous plant
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ramsons, n. (usu. treated as sing.)
1 a broad-leaved garlic, Allium ursinum, with elongate pungent-smelling bulbous roots.
2 the root of this, eaten as a relish.
1 a broad-leaved garlic, Allium ursinum, with elongate pungent-smelling bulbous roots.
2 the root of this, eaten as a relish.
Etymology
OE hramsan pl. of hramsa wild garlic, later taken as sing.
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