ramsons

Meaning

Noun

  • A wild relative of chives, Allium ursinum, having edible leaves and roots.

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Origin

  • From Middle English ramsons, ramsens, rampsons, ramesones, ramsouns, plural of Middle English ramson, ramsen, reinterpreted as a singular form, from Old English hramsan, nominative plural of Old English hramsa, from Proto-West Germanic *hramusō, from Proto-Germanic *hramusô, from Proto-Indo-European *kremus-, *kermus-.

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