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Definitions: Scallion |
ScallionNoun1. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum. 2. Young onion before the bulb has enlarged. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scallion" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
Etymology: Scallion \Scal"lion\, noun. [Old French expression escalone, eschaloingne, from Latin expression caepa Ascalonia onion of Ascalon; caepa onion Ascalonius of Ascalon, from Ascalo Ascalon, town in Palestine. Compare to Shallot.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ScallionSynonyms: green onion (n), leek (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Scallion |
| English words defined with "scallion": Porret. (references) |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "scallion" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Scallion | Last name | 100 | 78,670 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
kershaw scallion | 142 |
scallion | 51 |
gordon michael scallion | 33 |
agriculture scallion | 18 |
company list scallion | 15 |
pancake scallion | 6 |
scallion wild | 6 |
picture scallion | 6 |
pancake recipe scallion | 5 |
michael scallion | 4 |
dill scallion | 3 |
importer scallion | 3 |
magi scallion | 3 |
kate scallion | 2 |
black blade kershaw knife scallion | 2 |
chinese pancake recipe scallion | 2 |
gordon scallion | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scallion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 薤 (Allium bakeri, shallot), " (green onion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیازی شدن , پیازچه , تره فرنگی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | échalote. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schalotte (shallot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρεμμύδι (meniscus, onion, substance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scalogno (Shallot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 韮 (leek). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | にら (leek). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | skallioon, far-unnish (shallot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | allionscay лук - шалот. (various references) chalote (eschalot, shallot). (various references) schalottenlök (eschalot, shallots). (various references) yeşil soğan. (various references) цибуля-шалот (eschalot), цибуля-перо. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scallion": scallions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "scallion": rapscallion. (additional references) | |
Words containing "scallion": rapscallions. (additional references) | |
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"Scallion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: escalonia, Mcalliog, Mccalliog, Mccallion, Scaglia, Scalco, scalien, scalion, Scallini, Scarlino, sceolon, scilian, scillion, scoglio, Scollen, shalloon, skillion, Skyllaion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scallion" (pronounced ska"lyun) |
| 5 | -a" l y u n | battalion, medallion, stallion. |
| 4 | -l y u n | billion, bullion, civilian, jillion, million, multibillion, multimillion, octillion, pavilion, pillion, rebellion, scullion, trillion, vaudevillian, vermilion, Vermillion, zillion. |
| 3 | -y u n | banyan, Canyon, communion, companion, disunion, dominion, grunion, minion, nonunion, onion, opinion, pinion, reunion, union. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-l-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: alnicos, collins, oilcans. | |
-2 letters: alnico, aloins, casino, clinal, clonal, colins, lilacs, linacs, llanos, locals, nicols, oilcan, scilla, social. | |
-3 letters: aloin, anils, cains, calls, calos, canso, cions, clans, clons, coals, coils, coins, colas, colin, icons, laics, lilac, linac, linos, lions, llano, loans, local, loins, nails, nicol, nills, noils, ollas, salic, salol, salon, scall, scion, slain, snail, solan, sonic. | |
-4 letters: ails, ains, alls, also, anil, anis, asci, cain, call, calo, cans, ciao, cion, clan, clon, coal, coil, coin, cola, cols, coni, cons, icon, ills, ions, lacs, laic, lain, lino, lins, lion, loan, loca, loci, loin, nail, naoi, naos, nill, nils, noil, ocas, oils, olla, sail, sain, sall, scan, sial, sill, silo, soil, sola, soli. | |
-5 letters: ail, ain, ais, all, als, ani, can, cis, col, con, cos, ill, ins, ion, lac, las, lin, lis, nil, nos, oca, oil, ons, sac, sal, sic, sin, sol, son. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-l-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: carillons, colonials, scallions, sonically. | |
+2 letters: callousing, collapsing, collations, collegians, corallines, haloclines, localising, oxacillins, scalloping, scallopini, unsocially. | |
+3 letters: allocations, allocutions, calmodulins, citronellas, collisional, colonialism, colonialist, escalloping, logicalness, nonsyllabic, nosological, oscillating, oscillation, rapscallion, scallopinis, sectionally, sinological. | |
+4 letters: algolagniacs, amoxicillins, amoxycillins, antisocially, calculations, calumniously, citronellals, cloxacillins, colligations, collimations, collocations, colonialisms, colonialists, colonializes, colonialness, cupellations, declensional, decollations, disallowance, forensically, gallinaceous, geosynclinal, hallucinoses, hallucinosis, inconsolable, inconsolably, isochronally, isotonically, lamellicorns, malocclusion, melancholias, melancholics, melancholies, monastically, monosyllabic, neoclassical, nonclassical, nonclericals, occasionally, oscillations, plainclothes, postcolonial, rapscallions, sardonically, scintillator, semicolonial, simoniacally, subsonically, synoptically, vacillations. | |
+5 letters: agonistically, anticollision, anticolonials, bisectionally, cancellations, cantillations, carillonneurs, ceruloplasmin, chancellories, collieshangie, collisionally, colonialistic, compellations, complaisantly, constellating, constellation, crenellations, disallowances, flocculations, glycosylating, glycosylation, hallucinators, hallucinogens, illogicalness, localizations, logicalnesses, malocclusions, melancholiacs, misallocating, misallocation, miscellaneous, nonalcoholics, nonsensically, nosologically, nostalgically, nucleoplasmic, onomastically, oscillational, postcranially, reallocations, scintillation, scintillators, selenological, semitonically, suballocation, syllabication, symphonically, synecological, thrasonically, unmaliciously, volcanologies, volcanologist, vulcanologies, vulcanologist. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 61 6C 6C 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .- .-.. .-.. .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c a l l i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0061 006C 006C 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5369677878758180 |
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