Allium cernuum

Translingual

Allium cernuum

Proper noun

Allium cernuum n

1. A taxonomic species within the family Amaryllidaceae – nodding onion, a species native to North America of leaves like grass cultivated almost exclusively for its pulchritudinous flowers of rose colour and bell shape though edible.

Hypernyms

• (species): Asparagales - order; Amaryllidaceae - family; Allioideae - subfamily; Allieae - tribe; Allium - genus; Allium subg. Amerallium - subgenus; Allium sect. Lophioprason - section; Allium subsect. Cernua - subsection

References

• Allium cernuum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Allium cernuum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Allium cernuum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons