scallion
pronunciation
How to pronounce scallion in British English:
UK [ˈskæliən]
How to pronounce scallion in American English:
US [ˈskæljən]
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- Noun:
- plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
- young onion before the bulb has enlarged
Word Origin
- scallion
- scallion: see shallot
- scallion (n.)
- late 14c., scalun "kind of onion," also "thing of little value," from Anglo-French escalone, Old North French escalogne, or Old French eschaloigne, all from Vulgar Latin *escalonia, from Latin (cæpa) Ascalonia "(onion) from Ascalon," seaport in southwestern Levant (modern Ashkelon in Israel). Cognate with shallot.
Example
- 1. Some cuisines use a lot of scallion and ginger , whereas another might use a lot of onion and butter .
- 2. Braised sea cucumber with scallion and organic rice .
- 3. Tubular and hollow , as the leaves of a scallion .
- 4. To study the effects of scallion juice on analgesic , anti-inflammatory and stanch bleeding .
- 5. According to health officials , the scallion suspected in the e. coli outbreak linked to taco bell came from a southern california grower .