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•  Chives

  Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) are the smallest species of the onion family Alliaceae, native to Europe, Asia and North America. Allium schoenoprasum is also the only species of Allium native to both the New and the Old World. Its species name derives from the Greek skhoínos and práson. Its English name, chive, derives from the French word cive, which was derived from cepa, the Latin word for onion.

  

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•  Shallot

  The term shallot is used to describe two different Allium species of plant. The French gray challot or griselle, which has been considered to be the "true shallot" by many, is Allium oschaninii, a species that grows wild from Central to Southwest Asia. Other varieties of shallot are Allium cepa var. aggregatum, also known as A. ascalonicum. In Australia, the term can also refer to Scallion, and the term eschalot is used to refer to the shallot described in this article.

  

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•  Garlic

  Allium sativum, commonly known as garlic, is a species in the onion family Alliaceae. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, and chive. Garlic has been used throughout history for both culinary and medicinal purposes. The garlic plant's bulb is the most commonly used part of the plant. With the exception of the single clove types, the bulb is divided into numerous fleshy sections called cloves.

  

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•  Onion

  Onion is a term used for many plants in the genus Allium. They are known by the common name "onion" but, used without qualifiers, it usually refers to Allium cepa. Allium cepa is also known as the "garden onion" or "bulb" onion. It is grown underground by the plant as a vertical shoot that is used for food storage, leading to the possibility of confusion with a tuber, which it is not. Allium cepa is known only in cultivation, but related wild species occur in Central Asia.

  

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•  Allicin

  Allicin is an organosulfur compound obtained from garlic, a species in the family Alliaceae. It was first isolated and studied in the laboratory by Chester J. Cavallito in 1944. This colourless liquid has a distinctively pungent smell. This compound exhibits antibacterial and anti-fungal properties. Allicin is garlic's defence mechanism against attacks by pests.

  

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•  Allium

  Allium is the onion genus, with 600-750 species, making it one of the largest plant genera in the world. Allium was classified in family Alliaceae. However, in the classification of Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), Alliaceae is now the subfamily Allioideae of the family Amaryllidaceae. Previously some botanical authorities have included it in the lily family. The true number of Allium species is unknown, and estimates vary widely.

  

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•  Ramsons

  Ramsons (Allium ursinum) (also known as buckrams, wild garlic, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, sremuš or bear's garlic) is a wild relative of chives. The Latin name owes to the brown bear's taste for the bulbs and habit of digging up the ground to get at them; they are also a favorite of wild boar.

  

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•  Field garlic

  Field garlic (Allium oleraceum) is a bulbous perennial that grows wild in dry places in northern Europe, reaching 80cm in height. It reproduces by seed, bulbs and by the production of small bulblets in the flower head (similarly to the Wild Onion Allium vineale). Unlike A. vineale however, it is very rare with Field garlic to find flower-heads containing bulbils only. In addition, the spathe in Field garlic is in two parts.

  

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•  Garlic chives

  Garlic chives are also known as Chinese chives, Chinese leek, ku chai, jiu cai, Oriental garlic chives or, in Japanese, nira; in Kapampangan it is known as Kuse/Cu-se; in Korea known as buchu (부추), sol (솔), or jeongguji (정구지) or in Vietnamese, hẹ. The plant has a distinctive growth habit with strap-shaped leaves unlike either onion or garlic, and straight thin white-flowering stalks that are much taller than the leaves.

  

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•  Allium tricoccum

  Allium tricoccum, commonly known as ramps, spring onion, ramson, wild leek, or ail des bois (French), is a member of the onion family. Found in groups with broad, smooth, light green leaves, often with deep purple or burgundy tints on the lower stems and a scallion-like bulb strongly rooted just beneath the surface of the soil. Both the white lower leaf stalks and the broad green leaves are edible. They are found from the U.S.

  

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•  Polyarteritis nodosa

  Polyarteritis nodosa (also periarteritis nodosa or PAN) is a vasculitis of medium-sized arteries, which become swollen and damaged from attack by rogue immune cells. Polyarteritis nodosa is also called Kussmaul disease or Kussmaul-Maier disease. Infantile polyarteritis nodosa is a type of PAN restricted to infants.

  

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•  Virginia State Route 69

  State Route 69 is a primary state highway in Wythe County, Virginia, United States, running west from U.S. Route 52 past Interstate 77 towards Austinville. SR 69 begins at State Route 636 southeast of Austinville, at the intersection of Store Hill Road, Loafers Rest Road, and Lead Mine Road. It heads east via Bethany, crossing Interstate 77 at exit 24 and ending at U.S. Route 52 at Poplar Camp. The road lies in a relatively flat area north of Poplar Camp Mountain.

  

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•  Henry Minchin Noad

  Henry Minchin Noad FRS (1815–1877), electrician.

  

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•  Léon Casgrain

  Léon Casgrain was a Canadian politician from Quebec.

  

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