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scallion

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"Young green onion"

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8 lettersPronunciation [ˈskæ.lɪ.ən]Part of speech nounSorted acillnosStarts with SEnds with N1 clues
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Definitions

  1. a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads

Word origin

From Middle English scaloun (“shallot”), from Anglo-Norman scalun (variant of Old French eschaloigne), from a Proto-Romance derivation of Vulgar Latin *escalonia, from Latin Ascalonius (in caepa (“onion”) Ascalonius, "shallot"), from Ascalo (“Ascalon”), from Ancient Greek Ἀσκάλων (Askálōn, “Ascalon, an ancient port city in the Levant”), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אַשְׁקְלוֹן (ʾašqəlôn).

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