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- scallion



[scallion 词源字典] - scallion: see shallot
[scallion etymology, scallion origin, 英语词源] - scallion (n.)




- late 14c., scalun "kind of onion," also "thing of little value," from Anglo-French escalone, Old North French escalogne, or Old French eschaloigne, all from Vulgar Latin *escalonia, from Latin (cæpa) Ascalonia "(onion) from Ascalon," seaport in southwestern Levant (modern Ashkelon in Israel). Cognate with shallot.