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ramson.

A plant, Allium ursinum, a wild relative of chives and garlic.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɹæmsən/
  1. A plant, Allium ursinum, a wild relative of chives and garlic.

Where this word comes from

Back-formation from ramsons; compare Middle English ramson (originally plural, taken as singular); Old English hramesan, plural of hramsa (“onion, broad-leafed garlic”), from Proto-West Germanic *hramusō, from Proto-Germanic *hramusô (“onion, leek”), from Proto-Indo-European *kermus-, *kremus- (“wild garlic”). Cognate with Scots ramps (“wild garlic”), Dutch rams (“ramson”), Danish rams (“ramson”), Swedish ramslök (“wild garlic”). See buckrams.

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