What's the difference between scallion and stallion?

Scallion


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot.
  • (n.) Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3) In all age groups the foods most ingested were: steamed rice, wakame, tofu, bread, scallions, Japanese omelette, and tomatoes.
  • (2) Dinner might be duck on pea and scallion risotto, then baked cod with adzuki and mung beans.
  • (3) ), cherry pepper, Monterrey jack, scallions, anger.
  • (4) Michael Scallion, taking a break with his partner and toddler son, agrees that he has noticed the new leader’s “greater presence”, although he wasn’t aware of the shadow cabinet’s visit to the city a few weeks ago.

Stallion


Definition:

  • (n.) A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) in horses is imputed to the small numbers of people involved in the work, to the conservation of the authorities responsible for breeding, to the wrong choice of stallions for A.I.
  • (2) Detection of estrus in mares is problematic in that it requires the presence (or at least facsimile acoustic or tactile stimuli) or a stallion.
  • (3) Similar to other seasonal breeders, it appears that stallions may possess an endogenous circannual rhythm in reproductive function that is subject to manipulation by altering the light:dark ratio, i.e., photoperiod.
  • (4) It's so magnificent, like the swishing mane of a thoroughbred stallion … Too late, snip snip, off it comes.
  • (5) A 10-year-old Appaloosa stallion was referred for evaluation of colic.
  • (6) Ultrasonographic images of the accessory sex glands of 8 stallions were recorded immediately prior to sexual preparation, immediately after sexual preparation, and immediately after ejaculation.
  • (7) Hormonal effects of prolonged administration of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) were investigated in 7 fertile stallions in winter and summer.
  • (8) It was concluded, therefore, that hydrogen ion extenders depress fertilizing capacity of stallion spermatozoa immediately after extension and show little promise as semen extenders for short- or long-term storage of stallion semen.
  • (9) The spermatozoa in about 200 ejaculates from 36 stallions were examined to compare their survival time, motility and velocity before and after thawing.
  • (10) Repeated bacteriological examinations need to be undertaken before it can be concluded that a stallion is free of infection.
  • (11) Chapter 1: imagine your hopes and dreams are a galloping stallion, wild and untamed.
  • (12) It is concluded that intratesticular testosterone increases with age, is related in a positive manner to quantitative rates of sperm production, and can account for some of the differences in sperm production among individual stallions within a single breeding season.
  • (13) Four pony mares were readily infected with the organism of contagious equine metritis by intracervical inoculation and one by coitus with an infected stallion.
  • (14) Only in the oldest stallion (32 years) was there a significant lowering of fertility.
  • (15) Among 29 offspring in two stallion families there was evidence for one recombinant.
  • (16) Stallions may also harbor EAV in the genital tract and transmit the virus to mares during coitus.
  • (17) In the bull and ram, nucleolytic enzymes were found to be secreted by the seminal vesicles but in the boar, rabbit and stallion they originate mostly from the epididymis.
  • (18) The application of a long-day photoperiod (16 hours light:8 hours dark) in December, following 20 weeks of short days (8 hours light:16 hours dark), was effective in hastening the seasonal sexual recrudescence of stallions but was not effective in prolonging the interval of heightened reproductive capacity.
  • (19) A Thoroughbred stallion with erectile dysfunction following paraphimosis was managed to allow consistent ejaculation.
  • (20) Transmission of EAV infection by long-term carrier stallions would appear to occur solely by the venereal route.

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