garlion

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English

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Etymology

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From blend of garlic +‎ onion.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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garlion (plural garlions)

  1. (obsolete, very rare) A hybrid vegetable resulting from a cross between garlic and onion.[1][2]
    • 1936, The Reader's Digest, volume 29, page 99:
      The garlion is a cross between the garlic and onion; the topeppo combines the tomato and the pepper. We have the odorless onion, the odorless cabbage, the lemon cucumber that grows on a vine but looks like a lemon, and a giant cucumber
    • 1937, Consumers' Guide, volume 4, page 12:
      Garlions are being offered on the market as a compromise cross between garlic and onions for those who cannot quite make up their minds to take garlic to their bosom.
    • 1983, Attenzione, volume 5:
      Garlion isn't what the growers were looking for, but it has made a hit with customers at Dean & DeLuca, a New York specialty food store that sells the bulbs for $2.25 to $2.95 a pound.

References

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  • garlion”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  1. ^ garlion”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  2. ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future[1], Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225

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