Definition of Egyptian onion

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Egyptian Onion

Egyptian bean
Egyptian capital
Egyptian cat
Egyptian cobra
Egyptian corn
Egyptian cotton
Egyptian darkness
Egyptian deity
Egyptian fraction
Egyptian fractions
Egyptian haematuria
Egyptian henbane
Egyptian lupine
Egyptian monetary unit
Egyptian onion
Egyptian ophthalmia
Egyptian paper reed
Egyptian paper rush
Egyptian pea
Egyptian pound
Egyptian pyramid
Egyptian pyramids
Egyptian splenomegaly
Egyptian vulture
Egyptian water-lilies
Egyptian water-lily
Egyptian water lily
Egyptianization
Egyptianize

Literary usage of Egyptian onion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, William Swainson (1837)
"Hasselquist, in a panegyric on the exquisite flavour of the egyptian onion, remarks, that it is no wonder the Israelites, after quitting the land of bondage ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"The so-called "egyptian onion" is a top Onion; also the "tree Onion." Multipliers are shown in Fig. 1532-3. Instead of continuing a singlo "heart" or core, ..."

3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1907)
"... them wish they might enjoy it in tasting egyptian onion was " one of the best Paradise, and a soup made of the sweet- dishes" the naturalist ever ate. ..."

4. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"Like the potato, Its origin is not exactly known ; but, from being sometimes called the egyptian onion, it ia supposed to have been originally brought from ..."

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