Scallion
Scallion , noun
[Old French escalone, eschaloingne, Latin caepa Ascalonia onion of Ascalon; caepa onion + Ascalonius of Ascalon, from Ascalo Ascalon, a town in Palestine. Compare Shallot.]
1.
(Botany) A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot.
2.
Any onion which does not “bottom out,” but remains with a thick stem like a leek. — Amer. Cyc