wild onion

/waɪld ˌʌnjən/

Other forms: wild onions

Definitions of wild onion

1. noun

   any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wild
   types:

   Allium acuminatum, Hooker's onion

   a common North American wild onion with a strong onion odor and an umbel of pink flowers atop a leafless stalk; British Columbia to California and Arizona and east to Wyoming and Colorado

   Allium cernuum, lady's leek, nodding onion, nodding wild onion

   widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers

   Allium vineale, crow garlic, false garlic, field garlic, stag's garlic, wild garlic

   pungent Old World wild onion

   type of:

   alliaceous plant

   bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odor