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# leek

«leek» in Mova's school dictionary: **A long vegetable with a white stem and green leaves that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a leek, leeks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A long vegetable with a white stem and green leaves that tastes like a mild onion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/#m1)

2) The leek is a national symbol of Wales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In food and healthy-eating lessons, leeks are used in soups and pies (leek and potato soup). In Wales, people wear a leek or a daffodil on St David's Day, 1 March. In gardening, leeks grow in rows in the vegetable patch. Phrases: leek and potato soup, chicken and leek pie.

### examples

- Mum made leek and potato soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/#x1)
- We wore leeks on St David's Day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/#x2)
- The leek is a symbol of Wales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/#x3)
- You have to wash leeks well, as soil gets between the leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/#x4)
- Grandad grows giant leeks for the village show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/#x5)
- A leek looks like a very big spring onion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/#x6)
- In one grew some very fine chives or leeks; this was the kitchen garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/#x7)

### note

Countable: a leek, leeks. Homophone trap: «leak» (water escaping, or a secret getting out) sounds exactly the same. Leek = vegetable; leak = hole that lets liquid out.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «leek» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.