alliterative (aliterativ)

[ ive.] Pertaining to or consisting in all it era tion; characterized by alliteration. A few verses, like the pleasantly alliterative one in which he [Dryden] makes the spider, "from the silent ambush of his den,", "feel far off the trembling of his thread," show that he was beginning to study the niceties of verse. Lowell, Among my Books, Ist ser., p. 40. alliteratively (a-lite-ra-tiv-li), adv. In an alliterative manner; with alliteration. Vowels were employed alliteratively much le often than consonants. Trans. Amer . Philol . A ., XV. 64. all iterativene (a-lite-ra-tiv-nes), n. The quality of being alliterative. all it era tor (a-lit'e-rā-tor), n. One who uses alliteration. We all know Shakspere's jokes on the all it era tors . S. Lanier, Sci. of Eng. Verse, p. 312. Allium (al'i-um), n. [L., more correctly alium , garlic; perhaps related to Gr. ἀλλᾶς , sausage: see allantois .] The largest genus of plants of the natural order Liliaceæ , of about 300 species, natives, with few exceptions, of the northern temperate zone. They are bulbous plants, with a peculiar pungent odor, and bear their flowers in an umbel at the summit of a scape. Several species have been largely cultivated for food from very early times, including the onion ( A. Cepa ), leek ( A. Porrum ), shallot ( A. As calonicum ), garlic ( A. sativum ), chives (A. Schænopra sum ), rocambole ( A. Scorodoprasum ), etc.