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onion. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Pearl onions are small white onions used for pickling. The onion was grown extensively by the ancient Egyptians, in whose writings it is mentioned, and was later spread by the Spanish colonists. Onion is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Liliopsida, order Liliales, family Liliaceae. www.bartleby.com /65/on/onion.html   (472 words)

Onion - LoveToKnow 1911 The onion should be grown in an open situation, and on a light, rich, well-worked soil, which has not been recently manured. Onions may be forced like mustard and cress if required for winter salads, the seeds being sown thickly in boxes which are to be placed in a warm house or frame. The Welsh Onion or Ciboule, Allium fistulosum, is a hardy perennial, native of Siberia. www.1911encyclopedia.org /Onion   (688 words)

Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal The Welsh onion, however, does not develop bulbs, and possesses hollow leaves and scapes (fistulosum means "hollow"). Besides Welsh onion, Allium fistulosum is known as 'Japanese bunching onion', 'green onion', 'spring onion' and 'scallion'. Welsh onions are known as 蔥 (simplified:葱) (pinyin: cōng) in Chinese, 葱 or ネギ in Japanese (the Japanese transliteration, 'negi', is another term for Welsh onions), and 파 ('pa') in Korean. www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=welsh_onion   (302 words)

Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Onion onion, Welsh The perennial onion, Allium cepa perutile, the leaves of which are cropped, leaving the plant to grow. A 60–g portion (three onions) is a rich source of vitamin C; a source of folate, calcium, and iron; contains 400 μg of... Suspended onion particles and potential corneal injury in onion harvesters. www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Onion   (1168 words)

Welsh@Everything2.com Welsh flannel, a fine kind of flannel made from the fleece of the flocks of the Welsh mountains, and largely manufactured by hand. Welsh glaive, ∨ Welsh hook, a weapon of war used in former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of poleax. Welsh mutton, a choice and delicate kind of mutton obtained from a breed of small sheep in Wales. www.everything2.com /index.pl?node=Welsh   (1281 words)

News | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, Fla.   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The Welsh onion, however, does not develop bulbs, and possesses hollow leaves and scapes (fistulosum means "hollow"). Besides Welsh onion, Allium fistulosum is known as 'Japanese bunching onion', 'green onion', 'spring onion' and 'scallion'. Welsh onions are known as 蔥 (pinyin: cōng) in Chinese, 葱 or ネギ in Japanese (the Japanese transliteration, 'negi', is another term for Welsh onions), and ('pa') in Korean. www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=welsh_onion   (298 words)

Onion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Onions (usually but not exclusively the bulbs) are edible with a distinctive strong flavour and pungent odour which is mellowed and sweetened by cooking. Onions can be used, usually chopped or sliced, in almost every type of food, including cooked foods and fresh salads, and as a spicy garnish; they are rarely eaten on their own but usually act as accompaniment to the main course. In the English vernacular, "an onion" is a difficult situation, the use stemming from the onion's tendency to irritate or inflame the eyes. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Onion   (1226 words)

Welsh onion - Food & Drink - Recipes24 Net - recipes, cooking, cookbooks and more They are also known as green onions, bunching onions and scallions, but those terms refer more to function than taxonomy and can include some types of garden onion (Allium cepa) or shallots. Welsh Onions never form a solid bulb and the scape is hollow and fragile, very like the leaves. Besides their use as green onions in cooking, they are often grown in a bunch as a foliage ornamental perennial. www.recipes24.net /encyclopedia/w/welsh_onion.html   (104 words)

welsh - definition by dict.die.net Welsh glaive, or Welsh hook, a weapon of war used in former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of poleax. Welsh mutton, a choice and delicate kind of mutton obtained from a breed of small sheep in Wales. Welsh onion (Bot.), a kind of onion (Allium fistulosum) having hollow inflated stalks and leaves, but scarcely any bulb, a native of Siberia. dict.die.net /welsh   (339 words)

Onion - Atkinspedia Onions (usually but not exclusively the bulbs) are edible with a distinctive strong flavour and pungent odour which is mellowed and sweetened by cooking. Onions can be used, usually chopped or sliced, in almost every type of food, including cooked foods and fresh salads, and as a spicy garnish; they are rarely eaten on their own but usually act as accompaniment to the main course. In the English vernacular, "an onion" is a difficult situation, the use stemming from the onion's tendency to irritate or inflame the eyes. www.atkinsalltheway.com /wiki/index.php?title=Onion&printable=yes   (1429 words)

Onion, Welsh -- Allium fistulosum L. The Welsh onion is also known as spring onion, ciboule (French), zwiebel (German), negi, chibol, sybie, sybow, and stone leek. The leaves of Welsh onion are round, hollow, and inflated the entire length of 6-20 inches. While the Welsh onion is not a popular Florida vegetable garden item, it appears likely that it would grow and produce well in all areas of the state. edis.ifas.ufl.edu /BODY_MV102   (540 words)

Process for deodoring garlic or welsh onion and the like - Patent 5260090 However, these garlics and Welsh onions have a unique bad odor during cooking or as an oral odor or a body odor after partaking of a meal, so that the odor is considered to be a disadvantage in social life. A small amount of the characteristic odor contained in garlic or Welsh onion or the like is maintained when the garlic or Welsh onion is eaten, and after eating it is not noticed as an oral odor and body odor, its bitter taste is restricted and its fragrance or nutrition remains unchanged. In the case of a long neck Welsh onion or a leek, the bad odor substance and bitter taste substance are the same as those of garlic, and their amount is merely lower compared with that of garlic. www.freepatentsonline.com /5260090.html   (2886 words)

Welsh onion - Definition, explanation They are also known as green onions, bunching onions and scallions, but those terms refer more to function than taxonomy and can include some types of garden onion (Allium cepa) or shallots. Welsh Onions never form a solid bulb and the scape is hollow and fragile, very like the leaves. Besides their use as green onions in cooking, they are often grown in a bunch as a foliage ornamental perennial. www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/w/we/welsh_onion.php   (125 words)

Onion The onion was brought to the Americas by early explorers and was accepted quickly. Onions are not at all tolerant of salinity and yields are severely reduced when subjected to saline soils. After curing, onions must be placed into cold storage lowering the temperature of the onion gradually to 32°-34°F with the RH at 60 to 70%. www.uga.edu /vegetable/onion.html   (1811 words)

Onions and Other Pungent Lilies The word "Welsh" here is a translation of the German 'walsch', both meaning "foreign," and does not refer specifically to Wales but to the distant origins of the plant. Onions were grown by the earliest colonists and soon afterward by the Indians. The leaf of the leek, however, is flattened and solid, while the leaf of the onion is cylindrical and hollow. aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu /plantanswers/publications/vegetabletravelers/onions.html   (800 words)

Alliums The Onion is one of the most ancient and important vegetables known to man. As a culinary plant the Onion is among the most often cited vegetables throughout history among all nations in the eastern hemisphere. In the colonies the Onion is recorded by all diarists and was clearly a staple crop. In Asia the Welsh or Bunching Onion is devided between two groups, the taai ts' ung, which is the larger form and the koo ts' ung which is the smaller. www.history.org /history/CWLand/resrch9.cfm   (4584 words)

Vegetarians in Paradise/Onion History, Onion Nutrition, Onion Folklore, Onion Recipe The onion and cucumber patches of the city governor were located in the gods' best fields." The inscription actually referred to the property of the temple as the "gods' best fields" that were being misused as an onion patch by the city governors. Onion breeders closely studied the onion's sulfur compounds, resulting over time in the development of several varieties of sweet onions that were high in water and sugar content. In general, white onions are stronger flavored than yellow onions, though depending on where they were grown, their flavor can vary with the season and from region to region. www.vegparadise.com /highestperch312.html   (4208 words)

Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture: Onion Introduction The germination of onions is slow at 6 to 7º, the optimum germination temperature range is 10 to 35º, and the maximum temperature is 40º. The onion crop is adapted to a growing season with air temperatures at 13 to 24º. Onions begin to form bulbs when day length reaches the appropriate duration for the cultivar, providing temperatures are high enough. www.gov.pe.ca /af/agweb/index.php3?number=70445&lang=E   (562 words)

Onion The anti-inflammatory effect is strong enough that subcutaneous onion injections and topical onion applications inhibit skin reactions to intensely inflammatory compounds in people with or without eczema, according to the results of one double-blind study. Onion consumption at a level of at least half an onion a day was associated with a 50% decline in stomach cancer risk in one study. Onion is safe for use in children and, in small amounts in food, during pregnancy (though some pregnant women may have heartburn that onions could exacerbate) and nursing. www.pccnaturalmarkets.com /health/Herb/Onion.htm   (1730 words)

Chapter 6: Common Vegetables for Seed and Fruit Pollination in the onion flower occurs when pollen is transferred from the dehiscing anthers of one floret to a receptive stigma of another floret. Wind is not a factor of significance in onion pollination (Erickson and Gabelman 1956). When onion breeders want to get seed from a specific plant, they enclose the flowering umber within a bag or cage and introduce flies to transfer the pollen, or, if cross-pollination is desired, the umbels of the two lines are enclosed (Jones and Emsweller 1933). gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov /book/chap6/onion.html   (2504 words)

Onion - Wikinfo Onions (usually but not exclusively the bulbs) are edible with a distinctive strong flavour and pungent odour which is mellowed by cooking. Onions are frequently used in school science laboratories because they have particularly large cells which are easily visible through an optical microscope. The wild onion (allium ursinum) is collected in the wild, its leaves and bulbs used as food. www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Onion   (1138 words)

Green Bunching Onions, Commercial Vegetable Production Guides, North Willamette Research and Extension Center   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Bunching onions may be produced from immature, thickly planted white onion varieties of Allium cepa and from Allium fistulosum (commonly known as Japanese bunching types), or, rarely, from an interspecific hybrid of cepa x fistulosum. Some of the names used are "scallions," "green onions," and "spring onions." All these terms can be used for immature onions, but in reality, the "green bunching onion" of commerce that one purchases in the store in the Northwest today is most likely a different species from that of the bulb onion. Onions are hand pulled and bunched with 6-9 onions, or 1/4 lb, held together with rubber bands, usually two per bunch. oregonstate.edu /Dept/NWREC/oniongr.html   (1169 words)

Welsh onion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum) is a species in the onion genus Allium. A perennial, Welsh onions never form solid bulbs and the scape, like the leaves, are hollow (fistulosum means "hollow") as well as fragile. Welsh onions are known as 蔥 (pinyin: cōng) in Chinese, 葱 or ネギ in Japanese (the Japanese transliteration, negi, is another term for Welsh onions), and 파 ('pa) in Korean. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Welsh_onion   (284 words)

Informat.io on Onion Onions are one of the earliest crops mentioned in written text, in the Bible's Book of Numbers (11:5) as part of the Egyptian diet of that time. The onion issue has been regarded as decisive in some key political events - the Indian general elections of 1980 were dubbed "The Onion Election" by Indira Gandhi, who led her party to a landslide victory attributed in large part to high onion prices. Cocktail onions, or pickled pearl onions, are used to garnish drinks such as Gibsons. www.informat.io /?title=Onion   (1405 words)

onion - definition by dict.die.net   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Onion fly (Zo["o]l.) a dipterous insect whose larva feeds upon the onion; especially, Anthomyia ceparum and Ortalis flexa. Wild onion (Bot.), a name given to several species of the genus Allium. Onion The Israelites in the wilderness longed for the "onions and garlick of Egypt" (Num. dict.die.net /onion   (166 words)

Onion @ iCookClub.com Onions may be grown from seed or very commonly from "sets". It is thought that bulbs from the onion family have been utilised as a food source for Onions were even used in Egyptian burials as evidenced by onion traces being found in the eye reference.icookclub.com /onion.html   (451 words)

Foodgeeks.com: Recipe for Welsh Sticky Onion Tart with Teifi Valley Cheese Increase heat slightly, place a lid on the pan and allow onions to cook until slightly caramelized on the bottom. Use a spatula to scrape the onion mixture over the base of the buttered cake pan. This recipe is from the Association of Welsh Cheesemakers, this recipe, which could be thought of as an onion tarte tatin, features the Gouda-like Teifi cheese combined with slow cooked onions. foodgeeks.com /recipes/recipe/20995,welsh_sticky_onion_tart_with_teifi_valley_cheese.phtml   (289 words)

Floridata: Allium fistulosum Green onions to the cook, scallions at the super market, Welsh onions in England, ciboule in France, or bunching onions in most books, they all refer to Allium fistulosum, a very distinctive member of the onion family. After a cold spell, bunching onions send up hollow stalks topped with little greenish flowers in round umbels (clusters with all the flower stems arising from the same point), that are 1-3 in (2.5-7.6 cm) in diameter. Spring onions are small and immature bulbing onions (Allium cepa, Cepa Group), and are used in place of bunching onions. www.floridata.com /ref/A/alli_fis.cfm   (715 words)

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