SEA ONION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea onion mean? 

• SEA ONION (noun)
  The noun SEA ONION has 2 senses:

1. having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties

2. European scilla with small blue or purple flowers

  Familiarity information: SEA ONION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA ONION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

sea onion; sea squill; squill; Urginea maritima

Hypernyms ("sea onion" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "sea onion"):

squill (bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant)

Holonyms ("sea onion" is a member of...):

genus Urginea; Urginea (Mediterranean liliaceous plants; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

European scilla with small blue or purple flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Scilla verna; sea onion; spring squill

Hypernyms ("sea onion" is a kind of...):

scilla; squill (an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers)