Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bunching onion or a young onion harvested before the bulb develops.
- noun Any of several onionlike plants, such as a shallot.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The shallot, Allium Ascalonicum, especially a variety majus; also, the leek, and the common onion when sown thick so as not to form a large bulb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A kind of small onion (
Allium Ascalonicum ), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. - noun Any onion which does not “bottom out,” but remains with a thick stem like a leek.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun now A
spring onion ,Allium fistulosum . - noun now Any of various similar members of the
genus Allium . - noun Any onion that lacks a fully developed
bulb . - noun US, Scotland A
leek .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads
- noun plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The name scallion comes from the ancient seaport town of Ascalon modern-day Ashkelon in Israel.
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010
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The name scallion comes from the ancient seaport town of Ascalon modern-day Ashkelon in Israel.
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010
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My version is very similar to yours, except that I add in scallion too.
Guacamole, my way | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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The mixture of cooked/caramelized onions with the raw onion and scallion is something Rachel and I have experimented with.
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While there is a true green onion variety known as the scallion that has descended from those Mediterranean ancestors, the ones we find in the market may also be immature onions or leeks or the tops of shallots.
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010
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While there is a true green onion variety known as the scallion that has descended from those Mediterranean ancestors, the ones we find in the market may also be immature onions or leeks or the tops of shallots.
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010
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Ours was sautéed in a ginger-scallion sauce, and the platter containing these massive crustaceans covered most of the table.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Eats of the Pacific Northwest Big Girls 2011
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Ours was sautéed in a ginger-scallion sauce, and the platter containing these massive crustaceans covered most of the table.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Eats of the Pacific Northwest Big Girls 2011
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Ours was sautéed in a ginger-scallion sauce, and the platter containing these massive crustaceans covered most of the table.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Eats of the Pacific Northwest Big Girls 2011
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"We ended up having a really good time," says Ms. Yam, who ordered a plate of aushak, a scallion-and-cilantro dumpling, for $11.50.
Salang Pass 2011
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