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leek

Onionlike plant belonging to the lily family. The cultivated leek is a variety of the wild species A. ampeloprasum of the Mediterranean area and Atlantic islands. The lower leaf parts and white bulb are eaten as a vegetable. (Genus Allium, family Liliaceae.)

Leek

Town in north Staffordshire, England, 15 km/9.3 mi northeast of Stoke-on-Trent; population (2001) 19,600. Sewing thread, silk dye, silks, and ribbons are manufactured here.

Rudyard Lake is 5 km/3 mi to the north, and 10 km/6 mi north are the spectacular rocks known as the Roaches and Hen Cloud. These are outcrops of gritstone (coarse sandstone) used for practice climbs.



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That's Roman wormwood -- that's pigweed -- that's sorrel -- that's piper-grass -- have at him, chop him up, turn his roots upward to the sun, don't let him have a fibre in the shade, if you do he'll turn himself t' other side up and be as green as a leek in two days.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
A leek has overrun whole districts, and will prove very troublesome, but it was imported as a favour by a French vessel.
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There must be half a mile of fluff over it in this weather, but it does not affect The Leek.
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