scallion
1 synonym for scallion, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A slender green onion with a mild flavour, also called a spring onion, from the species Allium fistulosum.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
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Etymology
Comes from Middle English scaloun (“shallot”), from Anglo-Norman scalun (a variant of Old French eschaloigne), from a Proto-Romance derivation of Vulgar Latin *escalonia, from Latin Ascalonius (as in caepa (“onion”) Ascalonius, "shallot"), from Ascalo (“Ascalon”), from Ancient Greek Ἀσκάλων (Askálōn, “Ascalon, an ancie...
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