"red onion" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-red onion.wav Forms: red onions [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} red onion (plural red onions)
  1. A type of onion with reddish purplish skin. Wikidata QID: Q622350 Translations (a type of onion with reddish purplish skin): بَصَل أَحْمَر (baṣal ʔaḥmar) [masculine] (Arabic), بَصَل أَرْجُوَانِيّ (baṣal ʔarjuwāniyy) [masculine] (Arabic), rødløg [common-gender] (Danish), punane sibul (Estonian), punasipuli (Finnish), oignon rouge (French), lila hagyma (Hungarian), vöröshagyma [Transylvania, archaic] (Hungarian), vereshagyma [Transylvania, archaic] (Hungarian), rauðlaukur [masculine] (Icelandic), chīchīltic xonacatl (Nahuatl), rødløk [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), raudlauk [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), raudløk [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ceapă roșie [feminine] (Romanian), красний лук (krasnij luk) [masculine] (Russian), cebolla roja [feminine] (Spanish), rödlök [common-gender] (Swedish), ఎర్రగడ్డ (erragaḍḍa) (Telugu), kırmızı soğan (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-red_onion-en-noun-en:Q622350 Disambiguation of 'a type of onion with reddish purplish skin': 100 0
  2. An instance of this type. Wikidata QID: Q108910183
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Inflected forms

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