onion
(noun) an aromatic flavorful vegetable
onion, onion plant, Allium cepa
(noun) bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb
onion
(noun) the bulb of an onion plant
Source: WordNet® 3.1
onion (plural onions)
A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
The bulb of such a plant.
(uncountable) The genus as a whole.
(obsolete baseball slang) A ball.
(colloquial, chiefly, archaic) A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.
• (vegetable): violet (UK dialect)
Source: Wiktionary
On"ion, n. Etym: [F. ognon, fr. L. unio oneness, unity, a single large pearl, an onion. See One, Union.] (Bot.)
Definition: A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium (A.cepa), having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus. Onion fish (Zoöl.), the grenadier.
РOnion fly (Zo̦l.) a dipterous insect whose larva feeds upon the onion; especially, Anthomyia ceparum and Ortalis flexa.
– Welsh onion. (Bot.) See Cibol.
– Wild onion (Bot.), a name given to several species of the genus Allium.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
