Spanish onion

American  

noun

1. a large-sized, mild, succulent onion, often eaten raw.

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Spanish onion British  

noun

1. any of several varieties of large mild-flavoured onions

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Spanish onion

Was Bordoni vexed, asked the sheetlet, because her husband had presented, so sensationally, this Spanish onion ?

From Time Magazine Archive

The man gave him a long look, hrrmphed, reached toward the floor beside his desk and came up with a huge Spanish onion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mix sliced Spanish onion with twice the quantity of sliced and broken sour apples.

From The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Reed, Myrtle

Again, onions vary so much in size that we cannot draw any hard-and-fast line between a little pickling onion no bigger than a marble and a Spanish onion as big as a baby’s head.

From Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet by Payne, A. G.

Unconsciously Claude ate with a hearty appetite, indulged immoderately in excellent roast beef, and even swallowed a beautifully-cooked Spanish onion without thinking of the committal of a crime.

From Bye-Ways by Hichens, Robert Smythe