Ramson Definition

rămzən, -sən
ramsons
noun
A Eurasian plant (Allium ursinum) having edible leaves and bulbs with a pungent garliclike flavor.
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Noun

Singular:
ramson
Plural:
ramsons

Origin of Ramson

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

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English ramsyn from Old English hramsan pl. of hramsa

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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