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How to pronounce “onion”
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Pronunciation guide for onion
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- Practice the English pronunciation of onion with real speech in context.
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Satirized in a headline from the satirical newspaper the Onion,
- Definition summary
- A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
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How to pronounce onion
Enlightenment Now...

Satirized in a headline from the satirical newspaper the Onion,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “onion”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
- The bulb of such a plant.
- Any of various plants, mostly of the genus Allium, that are more or less similar to Allium cepa.
- (slang) Of a drug, an ounce.
- (obsolete baseball slang) A ball.
- (obsolete, slang) A watch-seal.
- Alternative letter-case form of Onion (“an inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian”).
- (4chan slang, slang) Soy, particularly when used in compound words related to the soy boy stereotype.
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