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

Cut one small Spanish onion in very thin slices, separate the rings and "crisp" in ice water.

From Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners A Book of Recipes by Hiller, Elizabeth O.

Onion Omelet.—Cut up a small Spanish onion; fry it a light brown; before folding the omelet add the onion, and turn out on a hot dish.

From Breakfast Dainties by Murrey, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson)

Wash well 1/4 lb. rice and put on to simmer slowly with 1-1/2 pints milk and water, a Spanish onion and 2 sticks of white celery.

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