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
Herb of the lily family whose root forms small clusters of bulbs with a mild garlic flavor Used in soups, salads, sauces, etc , the shallot has a brown papery skin as opposed to the whitish skin of the garlic