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English
Etymology
From blend of garlic + onion.
Pronunciation
Noun
garlion (plural garlions)
- (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
- “garlion”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ^ “garlion”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ 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, Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225
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