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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.
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The bulb of such a plant.
- My eyes are stinging from the chopped onions.
- 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.
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Any of various plants, mostly of the genus Allium, that are more or less similar to Allium cepa.
- 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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Of a drug, an ounce.slang
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A ball.obsoleteslang
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A watch-seal.obsoleteslang
- […] M was a Magsman, frequenting Pall-Mall; / N was a Nose that turned chirp on his pal; / O was an Onion, possessed by a swell; / P was a Pannie, done niblike and well. […]
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Alternative letter-case form of Onion (“an inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian”).alt-of
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Soy, particularly when used in compound words related to the soy boy stereotype.slang
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Ellipsis of flaming onion; anti-aircraft fire.abbreviationalt-ofellipsis
- Plenty kites came over after dark – we stood outside and watched flares, bombs, ack-ack, and onions on the third escarpment.
syn. violet