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onion

About 3.50 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
  2. noun The bulb of such a plant.
    My eyes are stinging from the chopped onions.
  3. noun 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.
  4. noun Of a drug, an ounce.
  5. noun A ball.
  6. noun A watch-seal.
  7. noun Alternative letter-case form of Onion (“an inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian”).
  8. noun Soy, particularly when used in compound words related to the soy boy stereotype.

Similar words

allium cepa onion plant cream business shallot scallion green onion spring onion allium bulb

Often followed by

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Word family

onions oniony

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