ramson

Meaning

Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• buckram, wild garlic

Origin

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