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# leek

noun (a leek, leeks)

«leek» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A long vegetable with a white stem and green leaves that tastes like a mild onion. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/#m1)
2. The leek is a national symbol of Wales. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/#x1)
- We wore leeks on St David's Day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/#x2)
- The leek is a symbol of Wales. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/#x4)
- Grandad grows giant leeks for the village show. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/#x5)
- A leek looks like a very big spring onion. [tree →](https://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://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.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: The leeks are among the foods of Egypt the people longed for in the wilderness; the tradition reads this as a complaint showing ungratefulness for the manna. In the primary 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

- We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; (Torah NUM.11.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leek/#x1)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «leek» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leek/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«leek» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/leek.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «leek» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leek/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«leek» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/leek.html) on Mova free.