Word Meanings - ONION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium , having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus. Onion fish , the grenadier. -- Onion

Additional info about word: ONION

A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium , having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus. Onion fish , the grenadier. -- Onion fly a dipterous insect whose larva feeds upon the onion; especially, Anthomyia ceparum and Ortalis flexa. -- Welsh onion. See Cibol. -- Wild onion , a name given to several species of the genus Allium.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ONION)

• Concert
• Onion
• combination
• concord
• harmony
• agreement
• association
• co-operation

Related words: (words related to ONION)

• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• ASSOCIATIONIST
  One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
• ONION
  A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium , having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus. Onion fish , the grenadier. -- Onion
• CONCORDANT
  Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant. Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. Sir T. Browne
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• CONCERTMEISTER
  The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master.
• CONCERTATIVE
  Contentious; quarrelsome. Bailey.
• ASSOCIATIONISM
  The doctrine or theory held by associationists.
• CONCORDANCY
  Agreement. W. Montagu.
• CONCERTION
  Act of concerting; adjustment. Young.
• CONCERTATION
  Strife; contention. Bailey.
• CONCERT OF THE POWERS
  An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.
• CONCERTINA
  A small musical imstrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads.
• CONCERTINO
  A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the concerto.
• HARMONY
  See STRAIN (more info) 1. The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between
• ASSOCIATIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to association, or to an association. 2. Pertaining to the theory held by the associationists.
• CONCORD
  Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case. (more info) same mind, agreeing; con- + cor, cordis, heart. See Heart, and cf. 1. A state of agreement; harmony; union. Love quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. Milton.
• CONCORDABLE
  Capable of according; agreeing; harmonious.
• CONCORDIST
  The compiler of a concordance.
• CONCERTED
  Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals. Concerted piece , a composition in parts for several voices or instrument, as a trio, a quartet, etc.
• PRECONCERTED
  Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ly, adv. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ness, n.
• DISCONCERT
  1. To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy. 2. To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash. The embrace disconcerted
• SEA ONION
  The officinal squill. See Squill.
• HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
  A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay
• TELHARMONIUM; TELHARMONY
  An instrument for producing music , at a distant point or points by means of alternating currents of electricity controlled by an operator who plays on a keyboard. The music is produced by a receiving instrument similar or analogous to
• RONION; RONYON
  A mangy or scabby creature. "Aroint thee, with!" the rump-fed ronyon cries. Shak.
• YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which