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Onion vs Gonion - What's the difference?

onion | gonion |

As nouns the difference between onion and gonion

is that onion is a monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice while gonion is an anthropometric landmark located at the most inferior, posterior, and lateral point on the external angle of the mandible.

onion

English

(wikipedia onion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa ), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
  • The bulb of such a plant.
  • * 1962' (quoting '''1381 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:
    • dorr?&
  • 773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n. toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
  • (uncountable) The genus as a whole.
  • A ball.
  • (colloquial, chiefly, archaic) A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.

    • Derived terms

    See also

    * chive * scallion * shallot

    References

    gonion

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun) (wikipedia gonion)
  • An anthropometric landmark located at the most inferior, posterior, and lateral point on the external angle of the mandible.