Onion
['ʌnjən]
Definition
(noun.) an aromatic flavorful vegetable.
(noun.) bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb.
(noun.) the bulb of an onion plant.
Editor: Sweeney--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium (A. cepa), having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus.
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Definition
n. the name given to a few species of genus Allium esp. Allium cepa an edible biennial bulbous root.—adj. On′ion-eyed (Shak.) having the eyes full of tears.—n. On′ion-skin a very thin variety of paper.—adj. On′iony.
Editor: Sallust
Unserious Contents or Definition
Seeing quantities of onions in your dreams, represents the amount of spite and envy that you will meet, by being successful. If you eat them, you will overcome all opposition. If you see them growing, there will be just enough of rivalry in your affairs, to make things interesting. Cooked onions, denote placidity and small gains in business. To dream that you are cutting onions and feel the escaping juice in your eyes, denotes that you will be defeated by your rivals.
Checker: Tom
Unserious Contents or Definition
The all-round strength champion of the Vegetable Kingdom, garlic and cabbage being close rivals.
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Examples
- An onion is an onion is an onion, Robert Jordan said cheerily and, he thought, a stone is a stein is a rock is a boulder is a pebble. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A rose is a rose is an onion. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This led to much joy and mirth over the pleasant suggestion of a frightfully distorted head, an onion head. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So could I--with a roast onion. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- W erner thought that the earth showed universal strata like the layers of an onion, the mountains being formed by erosion, subsidence, cavings-in. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- What hast thou against the onion? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Give me the wineskin and I will rinse the mouth, Robert Jordan said, his mouth full of meat, cheese, onion and chewed bread. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The finest seeds, such as grass and clover, onion and turnip seed, and delicate seed like rice, are handled and sown by machines without crushing or bruising, and with the utmost exactness. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Thy onions are affecting thy brain, Agustín said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Aymo had a basin of spaghetti with onions and tinned meat chopped up in it. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Them 's particular onions I was a savin' for dis yer very stew. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Are you a good judge of potatoes and onions? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It was rabbit cooked with onions and green peppers and there were chick peas in the red wine sauce. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Eatest thou always onions for breakfast? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- What are you, drunk on onions? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He could smell food now in the cave, the smell of oil and of onions and of meat frying and his stomach moved with hunger inside of him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The greater part of the apples, and even of the onions, consumed in Great Britain, were, in the last century, imported from Flanders. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- These boys had a horse and small wagon intrusted to them, and every morning in the season they would load up with onions, lettuce, peas, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Well, here are these onions. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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