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Scallion

/[ˈskæ.lɪ.ən]/ name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Irish.
Noun
  1. 1
    A spring onion, Allium fistulosum. Ireland, US
  2. 2
    a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of various similar members of the genus Allium. Ireland, US
  4. 4
    plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum wordnet
  5. 5
    Any onion that lacks a fully developed bulb.
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  1. 6
    A leek. Scotland, US

Etymology

Etymology 1

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).

Etymology 2

Variant of Scullion.

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