green onion

American  

noun

• green onions
  plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• green onions
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of green onion

First recorded in 1930–35

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

green onion

But he was also a mop, or a Vermeer, or a green onion, depending on whom you asked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Benedette Hardwick, the owner of the Red B Restaurant in Idabel, Okla., said the restaurant had temporarily stopped serving things like kale, parsley, green onion, raw broccoli, spinach and cilantro.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

One Instagram user posted a video of a spring onion with the text: "Am I losing it or does this green onion look like Haaland?"

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

There’s also crispy red rice and TJ’s Green Goddess Ranch Dressing, which is made from buttermilk, champagne vinegar, lemon, parsley, basil, green onion and chives.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2025

She hated fish with bones, and there was no way she was eating jalapeño and green onion hushpuppies.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

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