tree onion

Questions about tree onion

What is another word for tree onion?

It depends which tree onion you mean. In the sense “type of perennial onion grown chiefly as a curiosity or for early salad onions; having bulbils that replace the flowers”, the synonyms are Egyptian onion, top onion, Allium cepa viviparum. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of tree onion?

WordNet records no antonym for tree onion. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for tree onion come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of tree onion

• Full entry for tree onionAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for tree onionWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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