What is the name meaning of LEEK. Phrases containing LEEK
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LEEK
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Hindu, Indian, Tamil, Telugu
Leek Garden; Garden of Onnion
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Indian, Marathi, Telugu
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English
Variant spelling of English Layton, LEYTON means "leek garden."
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English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places in England so called. Most of them, as for example those in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire (near Gainsborough), Sussex, and West Yorkshire, are named with Old English lēac ‘leek’ + tūn ‘enclosure’. The compound was also used in the extended sense of a herb garden and later of a kitchen garden. Laughton near Folkingham in Lincolnshire, however, was probably named as loc-tūn ‘enclosed farm’ (see Lock 2).English : variant spelling of Lawton.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places so called. Most, as for example those in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, and Shropshire, are named with Old English lēac ‘leek’ + tūn ‘settlement’. Compare Layton.
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Tamil
Leek garden
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American, Australian, British, English
Herb Garden; A Place Name; From the Meadow Settlement; Leek Garden
Female
Chinese
leek flowers.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places so called, for example in Lancashire (near Blackpool) and in North Yorkshire. The former was named in Old English as ‘settlement by the watercourse’, from Old English lÄd ‘watercourse’ + tÅ«n ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter as ‘leek enclosure’ or ‘herb garden’, from lÄ“ac ‘leek’ + tÅ«n. Compare Leighton.
Male
English
Variant spelling of English unisex Leighton, LAYTON means "leek garden."
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, English
Herb Garden; A Place Name; From the Meadow Settlement; Leek Garden
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Hindu
Leek garden
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English
English : variant spelling of Leake.Dutch (de Leek) : nickname for an uneducated or ignorant person, from Dutch leek ‘layman’.
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German, Hindu, Indian, Marathi
God Universal Creator
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African Egyptian
Born at night.
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Basque Latin
Strong.
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Indian
Beautiful night
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Muslim
Noble
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Hindu, Indian
Interest
Female
Welsh
 Welsh form of Greek Eva, EFA means "life." Compare with another form of Efa.
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English
English : variant spelling of Wyant.Americanized spelling of German Weiand, itself a variant of Wiegand.
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Anglo, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese
Listener; Beautiful
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Muslim
Rising star
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Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek.
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A scallion; a leek or small onion.
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A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green color.
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A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.
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A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc.
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Any one of a certain series of basic compounds containing a chain of four nitrogen atoms; for example, ethyl tetrazone, (C2H5)2N.N2.N(C2H5)2, a colorless liquid having an odor of leeks.
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An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); -- called also the scarlet-breasted parrot.
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Of or pertaining to the genus Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions.
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Resembling the leek in color; greenish.
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A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.
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A leek-green or brownish mineral occurring in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous arseniate of iron.
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A plant of the genus Allium (A. Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion.