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red onions

red onions is the plural of red onion.

Meaning of red onion

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.

Questions about red onions

What is red onions the plural of?
Red onions is the plural of red onion.

Words near red onions in the dictionary

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

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