Onion Skin

Onionskin

Onionskin or onion skin is a thin, lightweight, strong, often translucent paper, named for its resemblance to the thin skins of onions. It is typically 25–39 g/m2 and may be white or canary-colored. Onionskin paper was usually used with carbon paper for typing duplicates in a typewriter where low bulk was important. It is also used for toy kites and advanced paper airplanes due to its durability for its weight, and in traditional cel animation due to its translucency.

Onion Skin (song)

"Onion Skin" is a song by Australian band Boom Crash Opera. The song was released in June 1989 as the lead single from their second studio album, These Here Are Crazy Times! (1989), and reached number 11 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. The following year, the song was released in the United States and reached number eight on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart that July.

Onion

The onion, also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion which was classified as a separate species until 2011. The onion's close relatives include garlic, scallion, leek, and chives.

Skin

Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation.

onion skin

Noun

1. The outer layer of an onion.
2. Alternative form of onionskin (“a kind of translucent paper”).