Thesaurus
Onion... now growing in Palestine. The
onion is "the `undivided' leek, unio_, _unus,
one.". Noah Webster's Dictionary. (n.) A liliaceous plant
.../o/onion.htm - 6kOnions (1 Occurrence)
... un'-yunz (betsalim; krommuon): One of the delicacies of Egypt for which the children
of Israel pined in the wilderness (Numbers 11:5). The onion, alllium cepa ...
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Onias
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Layer (4 Occurrences)
... a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or
of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. ...
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Leek
... broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb.
The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion. ...
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Root (54 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb
or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag. ...
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Bulb (4 Occurrences)
... is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing,
as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc ...
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Coat (54 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the
coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish. ...
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Egypt (596 Occurrences)
... times we find the maize (durrah), wheat, barley and lentil; the vine, currant, date
palm, dum palm, fig, olive and pomegranate; the onion, garlic, cucumber ...
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Greek
4237. prasia -- a garden bed ... Perhaps from prason (a leek, and so an
onion-patch); a garden plot, ie (by implication,
of regular beds) a row (repeated in plural by Hebraism, to indicate an
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