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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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On the onion bed outdoors deep-digging should be done now, and the soil then allowed to settle.
More traditional grub, such as a cheese and onion pasty or Scotch egg, follows in the evening.
They ate us out of house and home, we have no hamburgers left and we ran out of cheese and onion rolls, but we're famous for that.
And then there was the large brimmed, black balibuntal trimmed with hand painted imitation onion grass, reminiscent of a late Edwardian hat.
The beef teriyaki consisted of strips of something brown that had been cooked up with pepper, onion and soya sauce.
You just brown the meatballs, then add some vegetables, like grated carrot, some more onion, a bit of finely chopped celery, capsicum, whatever.

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