onion

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/ˈʌn.jən/

noun 6

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

raw | pickled | spring, red, Spanish

VERB + ONION

chop, peel, slice | brown, soften | cook, fry, saute

garnish sth with

You can garnish the soup with sliced red onion for added flavor and color.

grow

ONION + NOUN

ring | soup | skin | set | dome

PHRASES

cheese and onion

My son prefers cheese and onion crisps to salt and vinegar ones.

sage and onion

My grandmother always added sage and onion to the chicken she roasted for Sunday dinner.

Definitions

noun

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.

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.

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.

Of a drug, an ounce.

A ball.

noun

An inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian.

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Idioms & Phrases

take out an onion

Suggests that the performer of the action is not sincere in their grief.

He’s almost taking out an onion now as he remembers his father and his own early struggles.

peel the onion

To investigate a matter more deeply, usually step by step, each step leading to a new discovery.

eat the onion

To unwittingly and erroneously interpret a work of satire as literal fact, particularly a piece published by The Onion.

No, the original plan for Chicago's street layout was not scribbled on the back of a napkin by an ancestor of Roger Ebert; you just ate the onion.

Example Bank

Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.

Wiktionary

My eyes are stinging from the chopped onions.

Wiktionary

I'll have tomato and onion.

Tatoeba · #37447

I only need one onion for this recipe.

Tatoeba · #371939

Oh, onion bagels.

Tatoeba · #644489

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, onion is marked as slang, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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