onion
A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
Other meanings
The bulb of such a plant.
“My eyes are stinging from the chopped onions.”
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.”
A kind of
- bulb
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "ūniōnem".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “onion” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.