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Definition of Sand leek
1. Noun. European leek cultivated and used like leeks.
Generic synonyms: Alliaceous Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sand Leek
Literary usage of Sand leek
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Horticultural Society of London (1895)
"The Rocambole, or sand leek, occurs wild from Yorkshire and Lancashire to Fife
and Perthshire, as well as in Ireland. It is not of ancient cultivation, ..."
2. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1888)
"... The Sand-Leek. Europe and North-Africa. Resembles in some respects Garlic, in
others Shallot. ..."
3. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884)
"... leaves flat keeled, edges scabrid, sheaths 2-edged, spathes 2 shortly beaked,
head with bulbils, anthers not exserted. A. arena'rium, Sm. sand leek. ..."
4. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Horticultural Society of London (1895)
"The Rocambole, or sand leek, occurs wild from Yorkshire and Lancashire to Fife
and Perthshire, as well as in Ireland. It is not of ancient cultivation, ..."
5. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1888)
"... The Sand-Leek. Europe and North-Africa. Resembles in some respects Garlic, in
others Shallot. ..."
6. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884)
"... leaves flat keeled, edges scabrid, sheaths 2-edged, spathes 2 shortly beaked,
head with bulbils, anthers not exserted. A. arena'rium, Sm. sand leek. ..."
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