Shallot

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  • noun. A variety of onion with pointed, pear-shaped bulbs that grow in clusters.
  • noun. The mild-flavored bulb of this plant, used in cooking.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A vegetable of the onion kind, Allium Ascalonicum, native in Syria, and elsewhere cultivated; the seallion or cibol.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A small kind of onion (Allium Ascalonicum) growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a type of onion of the species Allium ascalonium.
  • noun. a type of onion of the species Allium oschaninii.
  • noun. any small onion.
  • noun. A scallion.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. small mild-flavored onion-like or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning
  • noun. aggregate bulb of the multiplier onion
  • noun. type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning