Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for ROC'AM-BOLE, or ROK'AM-BOLE
ROC'AM-BOLE, or ROK'AM-BOLE, n. [from the French.]
A sort of wild garlic, the Allium ophioscorodon, growing naturally in Crete. Rocambole, wild, is Allium scorodoprasum, which grows in Denmark, &c.
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