scallion

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At 8: 30, we had the traditional herring salad - only, because I can't stand herring, I mixed it with chopped egg, scallion, and sour cream.

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  1. noun A young onion before the development of the bulb.
  2. noun Any of several onionlike plants, such as the leek or shallot.

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  • At 8: 30, we had the traditional herring salad - only, because I can't stand herring, I mixed it with chopped egg, scallion, and sour cream. —  Ink In My Coffee
  • Serve the wings with carrots, celery, and plenty of your creamy cilantro-scallion dip. —  Damn Hell Ass Kings
  • Try her global bean with smoked cinnamon; and classic cheddar and scallion or blue corn and jalapeño corn bread Madeleines.
  • Somewhere between a traditional dumpling and a calzone, you'll find Binneli's Khachapuri and Zatar ($6.95), a buttery, crisp crust oozing with scallion-laced, four-cheese artery-clogging gooeyness.
  • The waitresses then gave a quick tutorial of how to put together something that I like to call 'duckito' that consists of Peiking duck, scallion, cucumber, garlic and a little bit of heaven in the form of a brown sauce into which the duck was dipped. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
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  1. Middle English scaloun, from Anglo-Norman scalun, from Vulgar Latin *escalōnia, alteration of Latin (caepa) Ascalōnia, Ascalonian (onion), shallot, feminine of Ascalōnius, Ascalonian, from Ascalō, Ascalōn-, Ascalon (Ashkelon), an ancient city of southwest Palestine, from Hebrew ašqəlôn; see ṯql in Semitic roots.

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  1. Formerly called, more fully, scallion onion; early modern English also skallion, scalion; from Middle English scalyon, scalone (also scalier) = Dutch schalonge = Italian scalogna (Florio), scalogno = Spanish ascalonia, escalona, from Latin Ascalonia cæpa, Middle Latin ascalonia, or ascalonium (sc. allium), the onion of Ascalon; feminine or neuter of Ascalonius, of Ascalon, from Ascalo(n-), from Greek )Ασκάλων, Ascalon in Palestine. Cf. shallot, from the same source.
 

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