Welsh onion Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Asiatic onion with slender bulbs; used as early green onions
    Japanese leek; Allium fistulosum.

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  1. . (Bot.) See Cibol.
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  1. (Bot.), a kind of onion (Allium fistulosum) having hollow inflated stalks and leaves, but scarcely any bulb, a native of Siberia. It is said to have been introduced from Germany, and is supposed to have derived its name from the German term wälsch foreign.

Webster 1913