wild onion

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a plant of the genus Allium, as A. acuminatum of the Pacific Coast.

Quotations

1808

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.