sea onion

sea onion

n.

1. A Mediterranean plant (Urginea maritima) of the lily family, cultivated for its bulb that yields a powder used medicinally and as a rat poison. Also called red squill, squill.

2. A small bulbous European plant (Scilla verna) having fragrant blue flowers.

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