Lexic.us

Definition of Field garlic

1. Noun. Pungent Old World wild onion.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Garlic

Literary usage of Field garlic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"Bulb small, distinguishable from that of the field garlic by its coat, ... Measures for extermination the same as recommended for field garlic. ..."

2. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"A. Canadi'ime, or Wild Garlic, is indigenous, and common in moist meadows. This differs from the field Garlic in having flat leaves, but is equally to bo ..."

3. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Allium oleraceum L. field garlic Herbaceous perennial Roadsides and alluvial thickets. Allium sativum L. Garlic Herbaceous perennial Cultivated and rarely ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The wild "Crow Garlic;1 and "field garlic" of Britain are the Linnean species Allium vineale and A. oleraceum respectively. See Phillips, Hut. of Culinary ..."

5. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"A. vineale L. Europe, nat. in eastern US Wild Garlic, field garlic, Crow Garlic, Cow Garlic, Crow Onion. 77. ..."

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