Shallot
WordNet
noun
(1) Small mild-flavored onion-like or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning
(2) Type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning
(3) Aggregated bulb of the multiplier onion
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Etymology
From échalote, alteration of eschaloigne, from Middle Latin escalonia "onion of Ascalon".
Noun
- a type of onion of the species Allium ascalonium.
- a type of onion of the species Allium oschaninii.
- any small onion.
- (New Orleans) A scallion.