Cousin of an onion (4 letters)

{ Answer }

LEEK

{ Related Clues }

Bulbous vegetable
Emblem of Wales
Garden herb
Garlic relative
Kind of soup
Onionlike plant
Onion's cousin
Onion's kin
Onion's relative
Pungent herb
Scallion's kin
Seepy vegetable?
Soup ingredient
Stew ingredient
Symbol of Wales
Vichyssoise ingredient
Welsh emblem
Welsh symbol
National emblem of Wales
Welsh national emblem
Hot or cold soup ingredient
Onionlike plant used in cookery

{ Tags }

cousin, emblem, garden, garlic, herb, ingredient, kin, kind, leek, national, onion, onionlike, onions, plant, relative, soup, symbol, vegetable, vichyssoise, wales, welsh

{ Notes }

The answer LEEK is common and appears about once every 225 puzzles.

{ Definition }

LEEK as a noun:

1. (leek, scallion, Allium porrum) = plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum

2. related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves