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wild onion 
a plant of the genus Allium, as A. acuminatum of the Pacific Coast.
- 1808 (1889) Soon after, our new friends . . . brought different kinds of roots, wild onions formed into syrup, excellent dried salmon, and some berries.
- 1852 They come here to collect the best birch-bark for their canoes, and to gather wild onions.
- 1910 . . . the wild onion . . . is eaten, roots and leaves, either raw or slightly roasted in the ashes.
- 1954 He glared sourly at a piece of dried moose meat that sat stiffly on his plate, surrounded by a mess of dried potatoes and wild onions.
- 1808 (1889) Soon after, our new friends . . . brought different kinds of roots, wild onions formed into syrup, excellent dried salmon, and some berries.