Ramson Definition
rămzən, -sən
ramsons
noun
A Eurasian plant (Allium ursinum) having edible leaves and bulbs with a pungent garliclike flavor.
American Heritage
Origin of Ramson
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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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