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Complete Definition of "onion"

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English
Image:Onions.jpg|thumb|Onions
Image:Onion slice.jpg|thumb|A sliced onion

Etymology
Latin unio

Pronunciation
IPA|/ˈʌnjən/
SAMPA|/"Vnj@n/
audio|en-us-onion.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
en-noun

  1. a monocotyledonous plant of genus Allium allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
  2. baseball slang an 1800s baseball term meaning the ball
  3. context|colloquial|chiefly|archaic A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.

Derived terms
top2
oniony
oniongrass
onion mildew
onion smudge
onion smut
onion thrips
onion fly
mid2
onion red
onion ring
pickled onion
red onion
spring onion
Welsh onion
yellow onion

Translations
trans-top|a monocotyledonous plant of genus Allium allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
Albanian: qepë f
Arabic: Arab|بصل IPAchar|(báʂal) m
Bosnian: luk#Bosnian|luk m, crni luk#Bosnian|crni luk m
Bulgarian: лук#Bulgarian|лук m
Catalan: ceba f
Chinese: zh-ts|洋蔥|洋葱 (yángcōng)
Croatian: crni luk m, crveni luk m
Czech: cibule f
Dutch: ui m, ajuin f
Esperanto: cepo
Ewe: sabala
Finnish: sipuli
Frisian: sipel g|Frisian
French: oignon m
German: Zwiebel f
Greek, Ancient: κρόμμυον (krommuon) n
Greek, Modern: κρεμμύδι (kremidi) n
Hausa: àlbásà
Hebrew: בצל m
Hindi: पियाज़ (piyāz) f, कांदा (kāndā) m
Hungarian: hagyma
Italian: cipolla f
Japanese: 玉葱 (たまねぎ, tamanegi)
Korean: 양파 (yangpa)
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Kurdish: KUchar|پیاز
Latin: cepa f
Macedonian: кромид (kromid) m
Maltese: basla f
Mongolian: сонгино (songino)
Norwegian: løk m
Persian: fa-Arab|پیاز (piyāz)
Polish: cebula f
Portuguese: cebola f
Romanian: ceapă f
Russian: лук#Russian|лук (luk) m, лук луковый (luk lúkovyj) m, луковица (lúkovitsa) f
Scots: ingan
Serbian:

Slovene: čebula f
Slovak: cibuľa f
Spanish: cebolla f
Swahili: kitunguu
Swedish: lök c, gul lök c
Tamil: வெங்காயம்
Thai: Thai|หอมใหญ่ (hŏm yài)
Urdu: ur-Arab|پیاز (piyāz) f, ur-Arab|کاندا (kāndā) m
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See also
chive
scallion
shallot

Category:Spices and Herbs
Category:Vegetables

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