TREE ONION

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Meaning:

Type of perennial onion grown chiefly as a curiosity or for early salad onions; having bulbils that replace the flowers

Synonyms:

Allium cepa viviparum; Egyptian onion; top onion; tree onion

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tree onion" is a kind of...):

Allium cepa; onion; onion plant (bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb)