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Meaning of "sand leek" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SAND LEEK

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SAND LEEK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sand leek is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SAND LEEK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

sand leek

Allium scorodoprasum

The sand leek, also known as rocambole, is a perennial wild onion. It should not be confused with rocambole garlic, which is A. sativum var. ophioscorodon.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SAND LEEK

sand dab
sand desert
sand dollar
sand dune
sand eel
sand flea
sand goby
sand hopper
sand lance
sand launce
sand lizard
sand martin
sand painting
sand shrimp
sand smelt
sand table
sand trap
sand viper
sand wasp
sand wedge

WORDS THAT END LIKE SAND LEEK

Belleek
cheek
cleek
creek
geek
Gleek
Greek
green leek
hide-and-seek
Holy Week
houseleek
keek
leek
meek
midweek
peek
seek
sleek
turn the other cheek
week

Synonyms and antonyms of sand leek in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sand leek» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SAND LEEK

Find out the translation of sand leek to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sand leek from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sand leek» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

沙葱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

puerro arena
570 millions of speakers

English

sand leek
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रेत लीक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكراث الرمال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

песок порей
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

areia alho-poró
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বালি লিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sable poireau
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Leek pasir
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sand Lauch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

砂のニラ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

모래 부추
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Leek pasir
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tỏi tây cát
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மணல் லீக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाळूचा लीक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kum leek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sabbia porro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

piasek pora
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пісок порей
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nisip praz
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πράσο άμμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sand prei
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sand purjolök
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sand purre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sand leek

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SAND LEEK»

The term «sand leek» is used very little and occupies the 184.132 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SAND LEEK» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sand leek» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sand leek» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sand leek

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAND LEEK»

Discover the use of sand leek in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sand leek and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Mediterranean Vegetables: A Cook's Compendium of All the ...
PLANT ORIGIN Sand leek is thought to originate in the Mediterranean and east to Syria and the Caucasus. PLANT HISTORY Sand leek does not appear to have been cul- tivated by the ancients. Two of its first historical mentions are in 1596 ...
Clifford A. Wright, 2012
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Ancient Egyptian Medicine
Attrition Most mature adult teeth from the earliest times show attrition due to hard particulate matter in food, partly as a result of grinding corn with stone and partly from contamination of grain with wind-blown sand. Leek (1979) proposed four ...
John F. Nunn, 2002
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World Spice Plants: Economic Usage, Botany, Taxonomy
... (sea) 120 samphire, rock 120 sampinit 178 Samtblume, Glanzende 358 Samtpflanze, Niederliegende 172 Samtrose 319 san lo-po 45 san nien 59 san yeh Ian 12 sanchonamu 400 sand and leek 25 sand leek 23, 25 sand rocket 137 sandal ...
Johannes Seidemann, 2005
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食品科學詞彙
... sand crab ii^S sand filter sand filtering КИШ sand lance £$5 ft sand leach fiMt sand leek Л)) Ш sand pear ; ÙM sand plum sand shrimp ?'>No( ; sand sugar Ö'ffi sand trap Р£6ИЙ : ШNoШ sandal f?ï sandalwood Ш ft sandalwood oil tSfHÄ ...
Kwan Hoi-Shan, 2005
5
Allium Spp
A. moly L. A. oleraceum L. A. scorodoprasum L. A. ursinum L. A. vineale L. Wild leek Wild leek Moly, lily onion, yellow onion Field garlic Sand leek Bear's garlic, ramsons Crow garlic Dr Satoshi T. Ohki College of Agriculture Osaka Prefecture ...
Marlene Diekmann, 1997
6
CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, ...
... suan. hsiao suan The Philippines: bawang India: lasuna, mahaushadha, rasun , lassun, lasun, vallai- pundu, velluli-talla-gadda, belluli, gohari lusoon Mexico: xiito ajo Yoruba: ayo, ayu A. scorodoprasum L. English: sand leek, giant garlic, ...
Umberto Quattrocchi, 1999
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Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers
... Onion Tree onion, Egyptian onion Rakkyo Welsh onion, Japanese bunching onion Japanese garlic Garlic Chive Sand leek, giant garlic Chinese chive Longroot onion Turfed stone leek ARUM FAMILY Giant taro, alocasia Elephant yam Taro, ...
Donald N. Maynard, George J. Hochmuth, 2013
8
Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and ...
... German botanist, as in Ahelia schumannii scillaris sil-AHR-is scillaris, scillare Like Scilla, as in [xia scillaris Allium seorodoprasum, Sand leek sil-ih-FOH-lee-us scillifolia, scillifolium With leaves like Scilla, as in Roscoea scillifolia sil-OY-deez  ...
Lorraine Harrison, 2012
9
Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology
Examination of samples of bread from tombs has demonstrated that the flour contained many impurities (from the soil, storage and grinding techniques, as well as windblown sand) (Leek 1966, 1969a, 1971a, 1972a). There has also been ...
Paul T. Nicholson, Ian Shaw, 2000
10
A Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine
enuresis in pregnancy epidemic throat sand Leek Seed Pill (jid jiu zi wan) or Oyster Shell Pill (mil li wan), which consists of oyster shell (mu li) and halloysite ( chi shi zhi). Spleen-lung qi vacuity can be treated with Center-Supplementing Qi-  ...
Nigel Wiseman, Ye Feng, 1998

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SAND LEEK»

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Beds to remain at Leek and Cheadle hospitals
Beds at Cheadle and Leek and hospitals are to remain open under proposals ... Neil Plant and Pam Wood, to save Cheadle sand Leek hospitals from closure. «Leek Post & Times, Jun 15»

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