green onion

1. 1.

   a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads

   Synonymsspring onionscallion

   Broaderonion

   United States · United Kingdom

Questions about green onion

What does green onion mean?

green onion means "a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads".

What is another word for green onion?

Close synonyms include spring onion, scallion. 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 green onion a common word?

green onion 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.