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

The Spanish onion contains a large proportion of sulphur and thus may be satisfactorily used in those cases where sulphur is needed.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

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.

Put 1 oz. butter in saucepan and shred into it very finely a large Spanish onion or an equal quantity white of small onions or leeks.

From Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. by Mill, Mrs. (Jean Oliver)