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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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So for dinner she heads off to Maya Masala for pani puri chaat, onion rawa paneer dosa and a sweet and syrupy Indian dessert.
On the onion bed outdoors deep-digging should be done now, and the soil then allowed to settle.
And then there was the large brimmed, black balibuntal trimmed with hand painted imitation onion grass, reminiscent of a late Edwardian hat.
You just brown the meatballs, then add some vegetables, like grated carrot, some more onion, a bit of finely chopped celery, capsicum, whatever.
The moonrat is notorious for its characteristic onion or rotten-garlic odor.
It's poached skate with fennel or lamb kidney sausage on bacon and onion bread.

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