purple onion

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   flat mild onion having purplish tunics; used as garnish on hamburgers and salads

   Synonymsred onion

   BroaderSpanish onion

Questions about purple onion

What does purple onion mean?

purple onion means "flat mild onion having purplish tunics; used as garnish on hamburgers and salads".

What is another word for purple onion?

Close synonyms include red onion. 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 purple onion a common word?

purple 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.