ramson

Noun

A wild, broad-leaved garlic, also known as wild garlic or bear garlic.
A plant, Allium ursinum, a wild relative of chives and garlic.

Examples

Despite having an ’S’ to pluralize it, RAMSON still felt like a risky play in Words With Friends.

Origin / Etymology

Back-formation from ramsons; compare Middle English ramson (originally plural, taken as singular); Old English hramesan, plural of hramsa (“onion, broad-leafed garlic”), from Proto-West Germanic *hramusō, from Proto-Germanic *hramusô (“onion, leek”), from Proto-Indo-European *kermus-, *kremus- (“wild garlic”). Cognate with Scots ramps (“wild garlic”), Dutch rams (“ramson”), Danish rams (“ramson”), Swedish ramslök (“wild garlic”). See buckrams.

Synonyms

buckram, wild garlic

Scrabble Score: 8

ramson: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
ramson: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ramson: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

ramson: valid Words With Friends Word