SEA SQUILL
Dictionary entry overview: What does sea squill mean? • SEA SQUILL (noun)
The noun SEA SQUILL has 1 sense:
1. having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
Familiarity information: SEA SQUILL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SEA SQUILL (noun)
Meaning:
Having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
sea onion; sea squill; Urginea maritima; squill
Hypernyms ("sea squill" is a kind of...):
liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)
Meronyms (parts of "sea squill"):
squill (bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant)
Holonyms ("sea squill" is a member of...):
genus Urginea; Urginea (Mediterranean liliaceous plants; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae)
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