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/ˈʌn.jən/ · noun
A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice..
Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.
To get started, how about creating an edible window box? Sowed in the spring, salad seeds like radish, lettuce and spring onion will germinate so quickly that you'll be harvesting a crop in a month or two.
My eyes are stinging from the chopped onions.
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Among the ancient Greeks, onions are most frequently mentioned as a stimulus to sexual desire.
Goulash, a local favorite, was brought up-to-date with seared grass-fed rib-eye, stewed cippolini onions and roasted cherry tomatoes.
Many onions are delicious; domesticated onions such as Allium cepa and Allium fistulosum are especially good, but even wild onions such as Allium canadense and Allium validum are nice in small doses.
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Use onion when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Onion means A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice..
Common synonyms include violet, allium cepa, onion plant.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.
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