Welsh onion

English

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).

Noun

Welsh onion (plural Welsh onions)

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

   Synonyms: cibol (obsolete), Japanese bunching onion, spring onion

Translations

Allium fistulosum — see spring onion

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “welsh”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Welsh onion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia