The mild-flavored cousin to the onion, chive, leek, and garlic The bulb is edible and is used like onions or garlic The green tops are harvested and marketed as "scallions "
type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning
Shallots are small round vegetables that are the roots of a crop and are similar to onions. They have a strong taste and are used for flavouring other food. a vegetable like a small onion (échalote, from ascalonia; SCALLION). Mildly aromatic herbaceous plant (Allium ascalonicum) of the lily family, probably of Asiatic origin, used to flavour foods. Closely related to the onion and garlic, the shallot is a hardy perennial with short, small, cylindrical, and hollow leaves; lavender to red flowers in a compact umbel; and small, elongated, angular bulbs. Much like garlic, the bulbs develop in clusters on a common base. The leaves are sometimes eaten when green. The so-called shallot marketed extensively as green spring onions is in fact a form of onion
small mild-flavored onion- or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning aggregated bulb of the multiplier onion
{i} plant from the onion family which produces an edible bulb; bulb of the shallot plant (used as food)
A bulbous herb whose flavor resembles an onion In some areas the term applies to the green tops as well as the bulb They are called "scallions" or "green onions" elsewhere