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Webster 1913 Edition

Shallot

Shal-lot′

,

Noun.

[OF.

eschalote

(for

escalone

), F.

échalote

. See

, and cf.

.]

(Bot.)

A small kind of onion (

Allium Ascalonicum

) growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.