spring onion

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noun

an immature form of the onion (Allium cepa), widely cultivated for its tiny bulb and long green leaves which are eaten in salads, etcAlso called: green onion, scallion

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How to use spring onion in a sentence

She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.
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This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.
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It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.
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Having graduated Juilliard last spring, Alex Sharp is too young to have given the performance of a lifetime.
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Althea is now re-scheduled with her surgeon for this spring.
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It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.
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I do not know what I think; all my thoughts seem whirling round as leaves do in brooks in the time of the spring rains.
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In the spring of 1868 he was taken by his mother for a visit to England, and there, in the same year, his sister was born.
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The cat had been about to spring at Grandfather Mole again when Mr. Crow spoke to her.
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In the spring of 1877 Mrs. Kipling came to England to see her children, and was followed the next year by her husband.
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