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Webster 1913 Edition
Scallion
Scal′lion
,Noun.
[OF.
escalone
, eschaloingne
, L. caepa Ascalonia
onion of Ascalon; caepa
onion + Ascalonius
of Ascalon, fr. Ascalo
Ascalon, a town in Palestine. Cf. Shallot
.] 1.
(Bot.)
A kind of small onion (
Allium Ascalonicum
), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2.
Any onion which does not “bottom out,” but remains with a thick stem like a leek.
Amer. Cyc.
Webster 1828 Edition
Scallion
SCAL'LION
,Noun.
a plant of the genus Allium; a variety of the common onion, which never forms a bulb at the root.