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scal⋅lion

[skal-yuhn]
–noun
1. any onion that does not form a large bulb; green onion.
2. a shallot.
3. a leek.

Origin:
1300–50; late ME scalyon(e) < OF *escaloigne < VL *escalonia, var. of L Ascalōnia (caepa) onion of Ascalon, a seaport of Palestine; r. ME scalone, scaloun < AF scaloun < VL, as above
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scal·lion   (skāl'yən)   
n.  
  1. A young onion before the development of the bulb.

  2. Any of several onionlike plants, such as the leek or shallot.


[Middle English scaloun, from Anglo-Norman scalun, from Vulgar Latin *escalōnia, alteration of Latin (caepa) Ascalōnia, Ascalonian (onion), shallot, feminine of Ascalōnius, Ascalonian, from Ascalō, Ascalōn-, Ascalon (Ashkelon), an ancient city of southwest Palestine, from Hebrew ašqəlôn; see ṯql in Semitic roots.]
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scallion 
c.1300, from Anglo-Fr. escalone, O.N.Fr. escalogne, or O.Fr. eschaloigne, all from V.L. *escalonia, from L. (cæpa) Ascalonia "(onion) from Ascalon," seaport in southwestern Levant (modern Ashkelon). Cognate with shallot.
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