alliaceous
Americanadjective
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Botany. belonging to the genus Allium (formerly the family Alliaceae).
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having the odor or taste of garlic, onion, etc.
adjective
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of or relating to Allium , a genus of plants that have a strong onion or garlic smell and often have bulbs: family Alliaceae . The genus occurs in the N hemisphere and includes onion, garlic, leek, chive, and shallot
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tasting or smelling like garlic or onions
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of, relating to, or belonging to the Alliaceae , a family of flowering plants that includes the genus Allium
Etymology
Origin of alliaceous
1785–95; < Latin alli ( um ) garlic + -aceous
Example Sentences
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In spring, the bulbs send up long, straplike leaves resembling those of lily of the valley, but with a characteristic alliaceous odor.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
Try as hard as they might to avoid these alliaceous vegetables, they occasionally fell victim to them camouflaged in soup or salad.
From Time Magazine Archive
GARLIC.—The smell of this plant is generally considered offensive, and it is the most acrimonious in its taste of the whole of the alliaceous tribe.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
If too much arsenic is used for this experiment, a dark-brown incrustation will sublime upon the sides of the tube which will give an alliaceous smell.
Being heated upon charcoal with carbonate of soda, they are reduced to metallic arsenic which may be detected by the alliaceous odor peculiar to all the arsenic compounds when volatilized.
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