onion
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
onion (plural onions)
- A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
- The bulb of such a plant.
- 1962 (quoting 1381 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
- dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s ~, sopes ~. […] 1381 Pegge Cook. Recipes p. 114: For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
- 1962 (quoting 1381 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
- (uncountable) The genus as a whole.
- (obsolete baseball slang) A ball.
- (colloquial, chiefly, archaic) A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.
- (vegetable) violet (UK dialect)
- French: oignon, ognon (alternative spelling)
- German: Zwiebel
- Italian: cipolla
- Portuguese: cebola
- Russian: лук
- Spanish: cebolla
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