onion

Plural

onions

1. 1.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.

2. 2.The bulb of such a plant.

   • My eyes are stinging from the chopped onions.
   • 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.

3. 3.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.

4. 4.Of a drug, an ounce.(slang)

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