onion plant

Questions about onion plant

What does onion plant mean?

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

What is another word for onion plant?

Close synonyms include onion, Allium cepa. 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 onion plant a common word?

onion plant 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.