leek, scallion, Allium porrum
(noun) plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
Source: WordNet® 3.1
scallion (plural scallions)
(now, chiefly, US) A spring onion, Allium fistulosum.
(now, chiefly, US) Any of various similar members of the genus Allium.
Any onion that lacks a fully developed bulb.
(US, Scotland) A leek.
• spring onion
• green onion
• Callison, oncillas
Source: Wiktionary
Scal"lion, n. Etym: [OF. escalone, escaloingne, L. caepa Ascalonius of Ascalon, fr. Ascalo Ascalon, a town in Palestine. Cf. Shallot.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot.
2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 November 2024
(adjective) furnished with inhabitants; āthe area is well populatedā; āforests populated with all kinds of wild lifeā
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.
