SQUILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does squill mean? 

• SQUILL (noun)
  The noun SQUILL has 3 senses:

1. bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant

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

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

  Familiarity information: SQUILL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SQUILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

bulb (a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure)

Holonyms ("squill" is a part of...):

sea onion; sea squill; squill; Urginea maritima (having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties)

Sense 2

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 ("squill" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "squill"):

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

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

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

Sense 3

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 ("squill" 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 "squill"):

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

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

genus Scilla (sometimes placed in subfamily Hyacinthaceae)