Definition of Onon
On"ion (?), n. [F. ognon, fr. L.
unio oneness, unity, a single large pearl, an onion. See
One, Union.] (Bot.) A liliaceous plant of
the genus Allium (A. cepa), having a strong-flavored
bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an
article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the
genus.
Onion fish (Zoöl.), the
grenadier. -- Onion fly (Zoöl.)
a dipterous insect whose larva feeds upon the onion; especially,
Anthomyia ceparum and Ortalis flexa. --
Welsh onion. (Bot.) See
Cibol. -- Wild onion (Bot.),
a name given to several species of the genus
Allium.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
ONION. A seal. Onion hunters, a class of young thieves
who are on the look out for gentlemen who wear their
seals suspended on a ribbon, which they cut, and thus
secure the seals or other trinkets suspended to the watch.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- a monocotyledonous plant of genus Allium allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
- (baseball) (slang) an 1800s baseball term meaning the ball
- (colloquial) (chiefly archaic) A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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