Scal"lion (?), n. [OF. escalone, escaloingne, L. caepa Ascalonius of Ascalon, fr. Ascalo Ascalon, a town in Palestine. Cf. Shallot.]
1. Bot.
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.
© Webster 1913.