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Squill

//skwɪl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A European bulbous liliaceous plant, of the genus Scilla, used in medicine for its acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties
  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 sea onion (Drimia maritima)
  4. 4
    having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties wordnet
  5. 5
    A mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis, from the Mediterranean
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  1. 6
    bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant wordnet

Etymology

From French scille, from Latin scilla. Doublet of scilla.

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