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Top with sour cream, cheese, and scallions and dig in.—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2025 Their foliage or scallions will be harvestable in as little as 30 days, while the sets will grow into bulbs of harvestable size in as little as 70 days.—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 28 Nov. 2025 Garlic is a member of the allium family, like leeks, chives, shallots, scallions and onions, and can cause abdominal pain, digestive problems and damage to red blood cell membranes.—Christa Swanson, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2025 Pour the sauce over the rice and stir in the turkey, peas and scallions.—Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scallion
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Etymology
Middle English scaloun, from Anglo-French scalun, escaloin, from Vulgar Latin *escalonia, from Latin ascalonia (caepa) onion of Ascalon, from feminine of ascalonius of Ascalon, from Ascalon-, Ascalo Ascalon, seaport in ancient Palestine
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