sea onion

sea onion

n.

1. The squill Urginea maritima, whose bulb yields a powder used as a rat poison and formerly used medicinally.

2. Any of various similar bulbous plants.

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sea onion

n

(Plants) another name for sea squill

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sea′ on`ion

n.

1. a Mediterranean plant, Urginea maritima, of the lily family, yielding medicinal squill.

2. a squill, Scilla verna, of the Isle of Wight, having narrow leaves and clusters of violet flowers.

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sea onion - having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties sea squill, Urginea maritima, squill liliaceous plant - plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber genus Urginea, Urginea - Mediterranean liliaceous plants; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae squill - bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant
	2.	sea onion - European scilla with small blue or purple flowers Scilla verna, spring squill scilla, squill - an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers

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