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Scallion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

a plant of the genus Allium; a variety of the common onion, which never forms a bulb at the root.

Scallion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot.

2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek.