English words starting with oni

Meanings of Onion:

noun

A swollen edible bulb used as a vegetable, having a pungent taste and smell and composed of several concentric layers.

Usage examples:

Cook the onion in the oil until lightly coloured

Meanings of Onionized:

adjective

Smelling of onions (also) having eyes full of tears, as if from the effect of raw onions.

Meanings of Onions:

noun

A swollen edible bulb used as a vegetable, having a pungent taste and smell and composed of several concentric layers.

Usage examples:

Cook the onion in the oil until lightly coloured

Meanings of Onionskin:

noun

The thin outer layer of an onion.

Usage examples:

Onion skins and peelings still have nutrients in them

Meanings of Onisciform:

adjective

Of the larva of certain lepidoptera and beetles: resembling a woodlouse.

Meanings of Oniscoid:

adjective

Of, relating to, or resembling a woodlouse; (later) specifically of or relating to the suborder oniscoidea, which comprises the woodlice and allied forms.

noun

A crustacean of the suborder oniscoidea, especially a woodlouse.

Meanings of Oniscus:

noun

A genus of terrestrial isopod crustaceans of the suborder oniscoidea; (also oniscus) †a crustacean of this genus, a woodlouse (obsolete).

Meanings of Onium:

adjective

Designating (compounds containing) complex cations of the kind with names ending in -onium.