garlion

plural garlions

1. obsoleterareA hybrid vegetable resulting from a cross between garlic and onion.

   Garlions are being offered on the market as a compromise cross between garlic and onions for those who cannot quite make up their minds to take garlic to their bosom.

   1937, Consumers' Guide, volume 4, page 12

   2 more examples

   The garlion is a cross between the garlic and onion; the topeppo combines the tomato and the pepper. We have the odorless onion, the odorless cabbage, the lemon cucumber that grows on a vine but looks like a lemon, and a giant cucumber

   1936, The Reader's Digest, volume 29, page 99

   Garlion isn't what the growers were looking for, but it has made a hit with customers at Dean & DeLuca, a New York specialty food store that sells the bulbs for $2.25 to $2.95 a pound.

   1983, Attenzione, volume 5