scallion : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: scallion	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for scallion
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scallion n plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum Synonym(s): leek, scallion, Allium porrum a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads Synonym(s): green onion, spring onion, scallion
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scallion \Scal"lion\, n. [OF. escalone, eschaloingne, L. caepa Ascalonia onion of Ascalon; caepa onion + Ascalonius of Ascalon, fr. Ascalo Ascalon, a town in Palestine. Cf. {Shallot}.] 1. (Bot.) A kind of small onion ({Allium Ascalonicum}), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not [bd]bottom out,[b8] but remains with a thick stem like a leek. --Amer. Cyc.