red onion

noun — 2 senses

red onion

noun

1

A type of onion with reddish purplish skin.

Marcus Empiricus, a Roma physician, prescribed three scruples of cress, three of red onion, three of pine seed, three of Indian nard, for impotence.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 70:

2

An instance of this type.

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