Onion

Quick meaning: Onion is a noun meaning A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.

Meaning

A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.

More Meanings

1. The bulb of such a plant.
2. Any of various plants, mostly of the genus Allium, that are more or less similar to Allium cepa.
3. (4chan slang, slang) Soy, particularly when used in compound words related to the soy boy stereotype.
4. Alternative letter-case form of Onion (“an inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian”).
5. (slang) Of a drug, an ounce.
6. (obsolete baseball slang) A ball.
7. (obsolete, slang) A watch-seal.

Example Sentences

My eyes are stinging from the chopped onions.

Among the ancient Greeks, onions are most frequently mentioned as a stimulus to sexual desire.

Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.

Goulash, a local favorite, was brought up-to-date with seared grass-fed rib-eye, stewed cippolini onions and roasted cherry tomatoes.

Word Forms

• onions

Synonyms for onion

Depending on context, synonyms include violet.

Related Words

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