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onion![]() A Cornish onion grower with some of his produce. Onions are sensitive to the number of daylight hours during the growing season. By this measure they can be separated into three kinds: long-day, mid-day, and short-day. The amount of daylight they receive during the British summer favours the growing of long-day onions. Plant belonging to the lily family, whose bulb has a strong, distinctive smell and taste. Cultivated from ancient times, it may have originated in Asia. The bulb is edible; its pale concentric layers of leaf bases contain an oil that is released into the air when the onion is cut open, causing the eyes to water. Onions are used extensively in cooking. (Allium cepa, family Liliaceae.) The onion is a biennial plant, the common variety producing a bulb in the first season and seeds in the second. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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1962 Allegan County Alliaria petiolata allium arable farming asexual reproduction Ashkelon Batan Islands budding bulb bulbil Canastota Castellón de la Plana chive Connecticut East Ham Exumas Gandia garlic | When they feast a friend they kill an ox, and set immediately a quarter of him raw upon the table (for their most elegant treat is raw beef newly killed) with pepper and salt; the gall of the ox serves them for oil and vinegar; some, to heighten the delicacy of the entertainment, add a kind of sauce, which they call manta, made of what they take out of the guts of the ox; this they set on the fire, with butter, salt, pepper, and onion. Old Uncle Silas he peeled off one of his bulliest old-time blessings, with as many layers to it as an onion, and whilst the angels was hauling in the slack of it I was trying to study up what to say about what kept us so long. "I have here an onion and a little cheese and a few scraps of bread," said Sancho, "but they are not victuals fit for a valiant knight like your worship. |
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