shallot
/ʃəˈlɒt/noun
1
- a small bulb which resembles an onion and is used for pickling or as a substitute for onion青葱, 分葱。
2
- the plant which produces these bulbs, each mature bulb producing a cluster of smaller bulbs亚实基隆葱。
2.1
- Allium ascalonicum, family Liliaceae (or Alliaceae).拉丁名Allium ascalonicum,百合科。
词源
mid 17th cent.: shortening of eschalot, from French eschalotte, alteration of Old French eschaloigne （in Anglo-Norman French scaloun：see SCALLION）.