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Princeton's WordNet
squillnoun
bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant
sea squill, sea onion, squill, Urginea maritimanoun
having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
scilla, squillnoun
an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers
Wiktionary
squillnoun
A European bulbous liliaceous plant, of the genus Scilla, used in medicine for its acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties
squillnoun
A mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis, from the Mediterranean
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Squillnoun
Etymology: squilla, scilla, Latin; squille, Fr.
It hath a large acrid bulbous root like an onion; the leaves are broad; the flowers are like those of ornithogalum, or the starry hyacinth: they grow in a long spike, and come out before the leaves. Philip Miller.
Seed or kernels of apples and pears put into a squill, which is like a great onion, will come up earlier than in the earth itself. Francis Bacon, Natural History.
’Twill down like oxymel of squills. Wentworth Dillon.
The self same atoms
Can, in the trufle, furnish out a feast;
And nauseate, in the scaly squill, the taste. Samuel Garth.The squill-insect is so called from some similitude to the squill-fish, in having a long body covered with a crust, composed of several rings: the head broad and squat. Nehemiah Grew.
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squill
Squill is a generic term referring to a family of bulb-forming perennial herbs, commonly known as Scilla. These plants are native to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, often grown for their attractive blue or white flowers. In medicine, the red squill variety is used for its diuretic and cardiac stimulant properties. The bulbs have also been used as rat poison due to their toxic content.
Webster Dictionary
Squillnoun
a European bulbous liliaceous plant (Urginea, formerly Scilla, maritima), of acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties used in medicine. Called also sea onion
Squillnoun
any bulbous plant of the genus Scilla; as, the bluebell squill (S. mutans)
Squillnoun
a squilla
Squillnoun
a mantis
Etymology: [F. squille (also scille a squill, in sense 1), L. squilla, scilla, Gr. .]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Squill
skwil, n. a genus of bulbous-rooted plants of order Liliaceæ, with radical leaves, and flowers in terminal racemes or loose corymbs—the officinal Squill is diuretic and expectorant.—adj. Squillit′ic. [Fr. squille—L. squilla, scilla—Gr. skilla.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of squill in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of squill in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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