garlion
garlion noun: a hybrid vegetable resulting from a cross between garlic and onion.
Noun
garlion (plural garlions)
- A hybrid vegetable resulting from a cross between garlic and onion.
- The garlion is a cross between the garlic and onion; the topeppo combines the tomato and the pepper. We have the odorless onion, the odorless cabbage, the lemon cucumber that grows on a vine but looks like a lemon, and a giant cucumber1936, The Reader's Digest, volume 29, page 99
- Garlions are being offered on the market as a compromise cross between garlic and onions for those who cannot quite make up their minds to take garlic to their bosom.1937, Consumers' Guide, volume 4, page 12
Forms of garlion
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Origin of garlion
From blend of garlic + onion.
Questions about garlion
- What does garlion mean?
- Garlion means a hybrid vegetable resulting from a cross between garlic and onion.
- What part of speech is garlion?
- Garlion is a noun.
- What is the plural of garlion?
- The plural of garlion is garlions.
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