Crossword clues for leek
leek
- Onion cousin
- Onionlike veggie
- Onion kin
- Garden green
- Welsh veggie
- Symbol of Wales
- Large, edible bulb
- Bulb plant
- Soup herb
- Scallion cousin
- Pungent plant
- Herb of the lily family
- Big scallion
- Welsh onion
- Scallion kin
- Onionlike bulb
- Chive relative
- Welsh vegetable symbol
- Vichyssoise onion
- Vegetable used in vichyssoise
- Staple of Turkish cuisine
- Shallot relative
- Scallionlike vegetable
- Potato ___ soup
- Garlic kin
- Color similar to spinach green
- Bulbed veggie
- Bulbed vegetable
- Bulb used in cookery
- What the French call "poor man's asparagus"
- Welsh root
- Veggie that sounds like a plumbing problem
- Veggie that looks like an overgrown scallion
- Veggie in potato soup
- Vegetable that's a Welsh symbol
- Vegetable that resembles a scallion
- Vegetable that is emblematic of Wales
- Vegetable in the onion family
- Vegetable in the etymology of the element praseodymium
- Vegetable in a classic vichyssoise
- Vegetable — Welsh symbol
- These tiny onions are delicious I can't even hate them
- Soup stalk, sometimes
- Scottish soup staple
- Scallion's relative
- Scallion-like veggie
- Ramp is a wild one
- Pungent vegetable related to the onion
- Potato soup addition, sometimes
- Potato __ soup
- Plant with edible leaf sheaths
- Plant that resembles an onion
- Plant (onion relative) eaten as a vegetable
- Oniony soup ingredient
- Onionlike soup vegetable
- Onion relative that resembles a scallion
- One of Wales's national emblems
- Member of the onion family
- Color similar to pea green
- Chive kin
- Bulb related to onions
- Bulb in soups
- __ and potato soup
- Garlic relative
- Kind of soup
- Onion's kin
- Stew ingredient
- Onion relative used in soups
- National emblem of Wales
- Onionlike plant used in cookery
- Soup ingredient
- Welsh emblem
- Soup vegetable
- Onion's cousin
- Bulbous vegetable
- Welsh symbol
- Vichyssoise ingredient
- Hot or cold soup ingredient
- National symbol of Wales
- Cousin of an onion
- Welsh national emblem
- Onionlike soup ingredient
- Vichyssoise vegetable
- Close relative of elephant garlic
- White cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves
- Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves
- Used in cooking
- Believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
- Related to onions
- Garden herb
- Shade of green
- Herb honored in Wales
- Seepy vegetable?
- Onionlike herb
- Shallot's kin
- Emblem of Wales
- Garlic's cousin
- Scallion's kin
- Amaryllis family member
- Edible emblem of Wales
- Onion's relative
- Pungent herb
- Garden vegetable
- Wales's floral emblem
- Vegetable starter for lunch that's scary
- Vegetable regularly alleged to have potassium
- Green and white vegetable
- Cut head off smooth and glossy vegetable
- Chop top off smooth and shiny vegetable
- Onion-like vegetable that's a symbol of Wales
- Welsh representation in Midlands town
- Welsh national symbol
- Seeing vegetable, suddenly collapse?
- Fish served up on top of king-size vegetable
- Barge capsized shown in national emblem
- Head removed from shiny vegetable
- Topped smooth vegetable
- The Welsh vegetable?
- Unpleasant look, having Knight replace Queen for national symbol
- Pungent bulb
- Soup veggie that resembles an onion
- Green vegetable
- Vichyssoise veggie
- Stew vegetable
- Stew veggie
- Scallion relative
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leek \Leek\ (l[=e]k), n. [AS. le['a]c; akin to D. look, G. lauch, OHG. louh, Icel. laukr, Sw. l["o]k, Dan l["o]g. Cf. Garlic.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Allium ( Allium Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion.
Wild leek, in America, a plant ( Allium tricoccum) with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
culinary herb, Old English læc (Mercian), leac (West Saxon) "leek, onion, garlic," from Proto-Germanic *lauka- (cognates: Old Norse laukr "leek, garlic," Danish løg, Swedish lök "onion," Old Saxon lok "leek," Middle Dutch looc, Dutch look "leek, garlic," Old High German louh, German Lauch "leek"). No known cognates; Finnish laukka, Russian luk-, Old Church Slavonic luku are borrowed from Germanic.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The vegetable ''Allium ampeloprasum'', of the lily family, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion. 2 Any of several species of ''Allium'', broadly resembling the domesticated plant in appearance in the wild.
WordNet
n. plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum [syn: scallion, Allium porrum]
related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves
Wikipedia
A leek is a vegetable belonging to the onion family.
Leek may also refer to:
Leek was a parliamentary constituency in Staffordshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Centred on the market town of Leek, it was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished nearly 100 years later for the 1983 general election. It was then largely replaced by the new Staffordshire Moorlands constituency.
Leek is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andy Leek (born 1964), English musician
- Gene Leek (born 1936), American former baseball player
- Geoff Leek (1932–2008), Australian rules footballer
- John de Leche or de Leek, Archbishop of Dublin (1311-1311)
- Ken Leek (1935–2007), Welsh footballer
- Miranda Leek (born 1993), American archer
- Peter Leek (born 1988), Australian Paralympic swimmer
- Ralph Leek, American football player
- Stephen Leek (born 1959), Australian composer, conductor, educator and publisher
- Sybil Leek (1917–1982), English witch, astrologer and psychic
The leek is a vegetable that is a cultivar of Allium ampeloprasum, the broadleaf wild leek. The edible part of the plant is a bundle of leaf sheaths that is sometimes erroneously called a stem or stalk. Historically, many scientific names were used for leeks, but they are now all treated as cultivars of Allium ampeloprasum. The name 'leek' developed from the Anglo-Saxon word leac. Two closely related vegetables, elephant garlic and kurrat, are also cultivars of A. ampeloprasum, although different in their uses as food. The onion and garlic are also related, being other species of the genus Allium.
Usage examples of "leek".
Never mind, I had an established asparagus bed so I would be able to cut asparagus for our meals, also I could harvest early lettuce, broccoli and radishes, leeks and spring cabbages, winter cauliflower and winter spinach.
Het celibataire leven leek juist daardoor een charisma voor hem, een bijzondere staat van genade.
En diep in haar hart voelde ze nog iets anders, het zeldzame verlangen naar het geloof dat Emilio leek te hebben, het geloof dat er een God bestond die het universum zin gaf.
Others prefer it cooked with leeks and onions, or pickled, and eaten with oil and lemon juice.
Then came venisonboth joints and racks, larded and roastedwith the inevitable accompaniment of frumenty, fritters of forcemeat with chopped onions and garlic, lampreys in a sauce that made the previous hot sauces seem exceedingly mild by comparison, roasted whole breams stuffed with breadcrumbs and chopped mussel, whole capons stewed in broth with leeks and herbs and wine .
By early evening, the central cauldron was full of soup or stew and all available surfaces were covered with brie tart, humble, galantine, and eel pie, haslet for the hunters, leek dishes for the lustful as well as meat laid out ready for the spit and an odd assortment of other viands depending on who was in town for what religious festival.
Hij zweeg en het leek alsof hij in tranen zou uitbarsten, maar hij vermande zich en ging op doelbewuste toon verder.
Het leek hem wat al te opzichtig om zijn baard af te scheren, maar verder probeerde hij zich even koel te gedragen als Beau Bridges.
This singular message was punctually delivered, and Krake, who was as clever as beautiful, soon presented herself, with a fish net wound several times around her graceful form, her sheep dog beside her, and the odor of the leek she had bitten into still hovering over her ruby lips.
And she ate three thick slices of warm manchet bread, their centers hollowed out halfway and swimming with chunks of rabbit and leeks in a thick broth.
Maar terwijl de VaKashani hem gewoonlijk bij zijn naam aanspraken, gebruikten ze ook een verwantschapsterm die hem een oudere broer van Askama leek te maken.
The garden was a model of orderliness, with rows of cauliflowers and winter cabbage, leeks and Brussels sprouts and, under cloches along one wall, neat rows of seedlings.
His wheezing breath, quickened with the exertion of rising from the chair, filled the room with an aroma of stale rum, leeks, and fish.
Wu en Isley wilden niet betrokken raken bij de burgeroorlog die elk moment leek te kunnen uitbreken.
Lady Imeyne knelt at the foot of the bed next to her medicine casket, busy with one of her foul-smelling poultices, and there was another smell in the room, sickish and so strong it overpowered the mustard and leek smell of the poultice.