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Squill

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers

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Senses

Wordset Dictionary

having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties

Wordset Dictionary

bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
scillasea onionsea squill
plural
Squills
possessive
Squill's
pluralpossessive
Squills'