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Onion

/ˈʌnjən/
A round vegetable with a strong taste and smell, made up of several layers, used in cooking.

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Examples:

I love meat, cheese, and onion.

We ate some meat, onions and cake.

Twice a week they were given an onion, too.

Etymology:

etymology
The English word onion derives from the Latin unio, meaning a large pearl, and was adopted into Old French as oignon, before entering Middle English as unyun.

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