בָּצֵל, v. preced.) onion. Nidd. 17ᵃ; a. fr.—Maasr. V, 7 (8) ב׳ של רכפה, expl. in Y. ib. 52ᵃ ‘the stalk of which is pressed inward’; oth. opin. ‘which has no acerbity’, v. אֶרֶס.—Pl. בְּצָלִים. Shebi. II, 9 הב׳ הסריסים which produce no seeds. Ib. V, 4 ב׳ הקיצונים summer onions; a. fr.—Ukts. II, 8 עלי ב׳ ובני ב׳ the leek-like sprouts, and the central sprouts of onions. Gen. R. s. 82 (ref. to Ob. I, 6) קליפת ב׳ (not בצליא) like peeling onions (laying bare Esau’s shame).