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Scilla

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A plant of the genus Scilla; a squill.
  2. 2
    an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers wordnet
  3. 3
    A bulb of Urginea scilla.

    "Scilla, or sea onyon, hot and dry in the third degree."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla). Doublet of squill.

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