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Definition of Allium ascalonicum

1. Noun. Type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Allium Ascalonicum

Literary usage of Allium ascalonicum

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

1. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1885)
"In 18551 had spoken of the species as follows:2— "According to Roxburgh,8 Allium ascalonicum is much cultivated in India. ..."

2. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1886)
"In 1855 I had spoken of the species as follows:2— "According to Roxburgh,8 Allium ascalonicum is much cultivated in India. ..."

3. Applied and Economic Botany for Students in Technical and Agricultural by Wilfred William Robbins (1896)
"The root of Allium ascalonicum (monocotyledon) (Fig. 62) Fig. 62.—Central vascular system of the root of Allium ascalonicum. gt ..."

4. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science by Robley Dunglison (1856)
"... a nostrum, ftp- pears to consist of garlic, infused in oil of almond*, and coloured by alkanet root. Allium ascalonicum, Schalotte. ..."

5. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"This species of Allium seems not yet so generally adopted in our culinary cultivation as Allium ascalonicum (the shallot), A. cepa (the ordinary onion), ..."

6. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1894)
"However, that one form affords of itself ample material for a paper of this character. The Shallot, the product of Allium ascalonicum, a native of Palestine ..."

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