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Squilla

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A dinner bell, (historical) a shrill little bell used to signal dinner for medieval monks.
  2. 2
    a kind of mantis shrimp wordnet
  3. 3
    A squill, a sea onion. obsolete
  4. 4
    A mantis shrimp (Squilla mantis) or other members of the genus Squilla.
  5. 5
    An insect resembling a mantis shrimp. obsolete

Etymology

From Latin squilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla).

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