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  1. Onions

    An onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion which was classified as a separate species until 2011.: 21  Its close relatives include garlic, scallion, leek, and chive.This genus also contains several other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion Allium fistulosum, the tree onion Allium × proliferum, and the Canada onion Allium canadense. The name wild onion is applied to a number of Allium species, but A. cepa is exclusively known from cultivation. Its ancestral wild original form is not known, although escapes from cultivation have become established in some regions. The onion is most frequently a biennial or a perennial plant, but is usually treated as an annual and harvested in its first growing season. The onion plant has a fan of hollow, bluish-green leaves and its bulb at the base of the plant begins to swell when a certain day-length is reached. The bulbs are composed of shortened, compressed, underground stems surrounded by fleshy modified scale (leaves) that envelop a central bud at the tip of the stem. In the autumn (or in spring, in the case of overwintering onions), the foliage dies down and the outer layers of the bulb become more dry and brittle. The crop is harvested and dried and the onions are ready for use or storage. The crop is prone to attack by a number of pests and diseases, particularly the onion fly, the onion eelworm, and various fungi which can cause rotting. Some varieties of A. cepa, such as shallots and potato onions, produce multiple bulbs. Onions are cultivated and used around the world. As a food item, they are usually served raw, as a vegetable or part of a prepared savoury dish, but can also be eaten cooked or used to make pickles or chutneys. They are pungent when chopped and contain certain chemical substances which may irritate the eyes.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Onions

    Herbaceous biennial plants and their edible bulbs, belonging to the Liliaceae.

Editors Contribution

  1. onionsnoun

    Plural noun of onion.

    There are a wide variety of onions growing in the community allotment that get shared with the members of the community every week during their season.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 27, 2016  

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  1. ONIONS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Onions is ranked #137327 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Onions surname appeared 122 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Onions.

    95% or 116 total occurrences were White.
    4.1% or 5 total occurrences were Black.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Onions in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Onions in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Onions in a Sentence

  1. Alexander Zhilkin:

    Petrochemicals, paper, glass, wood, wood products; there is demand for all of that, this year, unexpectedly, we've had requests from Iran for potatoes and onions.

  2. Chris Kilham:

    – because your husband is right. Onions actually offer superior health benefits to some of our favorite superfoods, like pomegranates, green tea and red wine, he added. Manny Alvarez checked in with Chris Kilham, the Medicine Hunter, for a second opinion. Onions are especially high in beneficial antioxidants including the super-antioxidant, quercetin, which is useful for the heart, for the immune system( and) for many, many things in the body, i would make the claim that onions are among the healthiest of all foods Manny Alvarez could possibly eat, and that if Manny Alvarez eat an onion every day - and I ’m not talking raw, Manny Alvarez can cook it, prepare it any way Manny Alvarez like - Manny Alvarez will do far more for Manny Alvarez health than eating lots of the super fruits that are available.

  3. Mark Rosati:

    The beer and bacon caramelized onions bring out even more depth of flavor and juiciness to our delicious flat-top griddled burgers.

  4. Paul Steck:

    I want my onions grilled when I order them, and I want my pita warm from the oven, not the microwave. To me, that’s fresh. while most of the industry has gone to bagged lettuce product—there’s a whole wall of that stuff in the grocery store now—we take full heads of lettuce and chop them each day.

  5. Fast FactsThe CDC:

    Epidemiologic and traceback data show that one source of infections in this outbreak are whole red, white, and yellow onions imported from Chihuahua, Mexico, and distributed throughout the United States by ProSource Inc.

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