ramsons
nounEtymology From Middle English ramsons, ramsens, rampsons, ramesones, ramsouns, plural of Middle English ramson, ramsen (“wild garlic”), reinterpreted as a singular form, from Old English hramsan, nominative plural of Old English hramsa (“wild garlic”), from Proto-West Germanic *hramusō, from Proto-Germanic *hramusô (“onion; leek”), from Proto-Indo-European *kremus-, *kermus- (“wild garlic; onion”).
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Plural normally A wild relative of chives, of species Allium ursinum, having edible leaves and roots.
- Synonyms
- buckram, wild garlic, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear garlic, bear's garlic, hog's garlic