Onionnoun

• 1

  slangAn inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian.

onionnoun/ˈʌn.jən/

• 1

  A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.

  • Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.
  • To get started, how about creating an edible window box? Sowed in the spring, salad seeds like radish, lettuce and spring onion will germinate so quickly that you'll be harvesting a crop in a month or two.
• 2

  The bulb of such a plant.

  • My eyes are stinging from the chopped onions.
  • Among the ancient Greeks, onions are most frequently mentioned as a stimulus to sexual desire.
• 3

  Any of various plants, mostly of the genus Allium, that are more or less similar to Allium cepa.

  • Many onions are delicious; domesticated onions such as Allium cepa and Allium fistulosum are especially good, but even wild onions such as Allium canadense and Allium validum are nice in small doses.
• 4

  slangOf a drug, an ounce.

• 5

  obsoleteslangball-gamesbaseballgamesA ball.

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  obsoleteslangA watch-seal.

  • […] M was a Magsman, frequenting Pall-Mall; / N was a Nose that turned chirp on his pal; / O was an Onion, possessed by a swell; / P was a Pannie, done niblike and well. […]
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  slangSoy, particularly when used in compound words related to the soy boy stereotype.