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shallot


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rocambole  \Roc"am*bole\,  n.  [F.]  [Written  also  {rokambole}.] 
  (Bot.) 
  A  name  of  {Allium  Scorodoprasum}  and  {A.  Ascalonium},  two 
  kinds  of  garlic,  the  latter  of  which  is  also  called 
  {shallot}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shallot  \Shal*lot"\,  n.  [OF.  eschalote  (for  escalone),  F. 
  ['e]chalote.  See  {Scallion},  and  cf  {Eschalot}.]  (Bot.) 
  A  small  kind  of  onion  ({Allium  Ascalonicum})  growing  in 
  clusters,  and  ready  for  gathering  in  spring;  a  scallion,  or 
  eschalot. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  shallot 
  n  1:  aggregated  bulb  of  the  multiplier  onion 
  2:  type  of  onion  plant  producing  small  clustered  mild-flavored 
  bulbs  used  as  seasoning  [syn:  {eschalot},  {multiplier 
  onion},  {Allium  cepa  aggregatum},  {Allium  ascalonicum}] 
  3:  small  mild-flavored  onion-  or  garlic-like  clustered  bulbs 




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