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green onion

noun

  1. a young onion with a slender green stalk and a small bulb, used as a table vegetable, usually raw, especially in salads; scallion.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of green onion1

First recorded in 1930–35

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Example Sentences

Also chop a green onion, some chervil, a few tarragon-leaves, and mix with your sauce.

Then sprinkle it with a mixture of parsley, sweet marjoram, and green onion; all chopped fine.

If herbs are preferred, there should be a little parsley shred, and green onion cut very fine, and serve up fried.

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