Tree onion Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun type of perennial onion grown chiefly as a curiosity or for early salad onions; having bulbils that replace the flowers
    Allium cepa viviparum; top onion; Egyptian onion.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a species of garlic (Allium proliferum) which produces bulbs in place of flowers, or among its flowers.

Webster 1913