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red onion

red onion noun: a type of onion with reddish purplish skin.

red onion: a type of onion with reddish purplish skin
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Noun

red onion (plural red onions)

  1. A type of onion with reddish purplish skin.
    • Marcus Empiricus, a Roma physician, prescribed three scruples of cress, three of red onion, three of pine seed, three of Indian nard, for impotence.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 70
  2. An instance of this type.

red onion meaning in Telugu, Kannada and Arabic

red onion in Telugu

a type of onion with reddish purplish skin
ఎర్రగడ్డ erragaḍḍa

red onion in Kannada

ಕೇಸುಳ್ಳಿ

red onion in Arabic

a type of onion with reddish purplish skin
بَصَل أَحْمَر baṣal ʔaḥmar, بَصَل أَرْجُوَانِيّ baṣal ʔarjuwāniyy

Forms of red onion

pluralred onions

Questions about red onion

What does red onion mean?
Red onion means a type of onion with reddish purplish skin.
What is red onion in Telugu?
Red onion in Telugu is ఎర్రగడ్డ (erragaḍḍa). See Red onion meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is red onion?
Red onion is a noun.
What is the plural of red onion?
The plural of red onion is red onions.

Words near red onion in the dictionary

  1. red oaks
  2. red ocher
  3. red ochers
  4. red ochre
  5. red ochres
  6. red onion
  7. red onions
  8. red orpiment
  9. red orpiments
  10. red osier
  11. red osier dogwood

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Adapted from Wiktionary: red onion (page history and authors); red onion (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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