leek

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   related to onions

2. 2
   noun

   plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves

3. 3
   noun

   A vegetable of variety Allium ampeloprasum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.

4. 4
   noun

   Any of several species of Allium, broadly resembling the domesticated plant in appearance in the wild.

5. 5
   name

   A town and civil parish with a town council in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9856).

6. 6
   name

   A village and former municipality in Groningen province, Netherlands.

7. 7
   name

   A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English leke, leek, lek, from Old English lēac (“a garden herb, leek, onion, garlic”), from Proto-West Germanic *lauk, from Proto-Germanic *lauką, *laukaz (“leek, onion”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”). Cognate with Dutch look (“garlic, leek”), German Low German Look (“leek”), German Lauch (“leek, allium”), Danish løg (“onion”), Swedish lök (“onion”), Icelandic laukur (“onion, leek, garlic”). See garlic.