onion grass
English
editNoun
editonion grass (usually uncountable, plural onion grasses)
- (US) Species of Melica, especially Melica bulbosa. [from 19th c.]
- (Australia) Any of several species of non-native grasses of the genus Romulea, including Romulea rosea. [from 20th c.]
- 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 54:
- Peter Latz […] described the technique of women harvesting the tubers of onion grass […] .
- Wild or feral chives, garlic, or other species with grass-like leaves in the genus Allium, particularly Allium vineale, a wild herb native to Europe and western Asia, naturalised elsewhere; a common lawn weed.
Synonyms
edit- (Allium vineale): crow garlic, field garlic, wild onion, wild scallion, wild garlic
Translations
editAllium vineale
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Romulea rosea
Further reading
edit- onion grass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Allium vineale on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Allium vineale on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- onion grass at USDA Plants database