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/liːk/ · noun
A vegetable of variety Allium ampeloprasum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion..
Use leek when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Leek means A vegetable of variety Allium ampeloprasum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion..
Common synonyms include broadleaf wild leek, the Cambrian symbol, garden leek, scallion.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Use leek where its definition matches the intended context.
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