Definitions
Pungent edible bulb used as a vegetable.
Word origin
From Middle English onyoun, oynoun, from Old French oignon, from Latin ūniōnem, accusative of ūniō (“onion”), which had also been borrowed into Old English as yne, ynnelēac (“onion”) (> Middle English hynne-leac, henne-leac). Displaced the inherited term ramsons.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“My eyes are stinging from the chopped onions.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Pungent bulb vegetable”5 letters
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