It is a vegetable, can be red or white. The word onion came into the English language from French 'union', from 'oignon'/'oingnon', in the twelfth century. The earliest records of the word we have...
It means an onion is a metaphor for life when the past phase is peeled away to reveal a new fresh layer in life where at some point along the process of entering new phases we face sadness and weep.
Onion skin weathering is when a top layerof rock gets exstreamly hot, but then meets a sudden drop in temputure, then the top layer of the rock splits and flakes away. For exsample take a peice of...