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scallion

(skal′yən)

noun

any of various onions or onionlike plants, as the shallot, green onion, or leek

Origin: ME scalon < NormFr escalogne (for OFr eschaloigne) < VL *escalonia < L (caepa) Ascalonia, (onion of) Ascalon (a city in Philistia)

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noun

A young onion before the development of the bulb.
Any of several onionlike plants, such as the leek or shallot.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English scaloun

Origin: , from Anglo-Norman scalun

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *escalōnia

Origin: , alteration of Latin (caepa) Ascalōnia, Ascalonian (onion), shallot

Origin: , feminine of Ascalōnius, Ascalonian

Origin: , from Ascalō, Ascalōn-, Ascalon (Ashkelon), an ancient city of southwest Palestine

Origin: , from Hebrew ašqəlôn; see īql in Semitic roots

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