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What is an onion?

What is an onion? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
  2. The bulb of such a plant.
  3. (uncountable) The genus as a whole.
  4. (obsolete baseball slang) A ball.
  5. (colloquial, chiefly archaic) A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.
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Seeds that barely last to the second year include sweet corn, leek, onion, parsley, parsnip, rhubarb and salsify.
The moonrat is notorious for its characteristic onion or rotten-garlic odor.
You just brown the meatballs, then add some vegetables, like grated carrot, some more onion, a bit of finely chopped celery, capsicum, whatever.
It's poached skate with fennel or lamb kidney sausage on bacon and onion bread.
On the onion bed outdoors deep-digging should be done now, and the soil then allowed to settle.
The beef teriyaki consisted of strips of something brown that had been cooked up with pepper, onion and soya sauce.

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