SCILLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scilla mean? 

• SCILLA (noun)
  The noun SCILLA has 1 sense:

1. an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers

  Familiarity information: SCILLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCILLA (noun)

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Meaning:

An Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

scilla; squill

Hypernyms ("scilla" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scilla"):

Scilla verna; sea onion; spring squill (European scilla with small blue or purple flowers)

Holonyms ("scilla" is a member of...):

genus Scilla (sometimes placed in subfamily Hyacinthaceae)