allium cepa

Questions about allium cepa

What does allium cepa mean?

allium cepa means "bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb".

What is another word for allium cepa?

Close synonyms include onion, onion plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is allium cepa a common word?

allium cepa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.