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welsh onion

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English

Syllables
welsh o-nion
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the species Allium fistulosum of onions, probably native to eastern Asia, widely cultivated.

Etymology

From welsh (in the sense of “foreign”) + onion; capitalization is by conflation with Welsh (as in pertaining to Wales), in turn derived from the same sense of welsh (as in foreign).

Inflected Forms

Welsh onions (plural)

Synonyms

cibol Japanese bunching onion spring onion japanese leek allium fistulosum

Questions

What does welsh onion mean?
Any member of the species Allium fistulosum of onions, probably native to eastern Asia, widely cultivated.
Where does welsh onion come from?
From welsh (in the sense of “foreign”) + onion; capitalization is by conflation with Welsh (as in pertaining to Wales), in turn derived from the same sense of welsh (as in foreign).

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