Color Names

Shallot Bulb

Dusty onion skin, the papery covering of a bulb pulled from winter storage.

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Shallot Bulb is a cool grey, close to green.

It can be described as cool, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Shallot Bulb

Shallot

The shallot is a cultivar group of the onion. Until 2010, the shallot was classified as a separate species, Allium ascalonicum. The taxon was synonymized with Allium cepa in 2010, as the difference was too small to justify a separate species.

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Bulb

In botany, a bulb is a short underground stem with fleshy leaves or leaf bases that function as food storage organs during dormancy. In gardening, plants with other kinds of storage organ are also called ornamental bulbous plants or just bulbs.

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shallot

Noun

  1. Any vegetable of certain species in the onion family.
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bulb

Noun

  1. The bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
  2. The medulla oblongata.

Verb

  1. To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
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