| NOUN | plant | sea onion, sea squill, squill, Urginea maritima | having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties |
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| plant | sea onion, spring squill, Scilla verna | European scilla with small blue or purple flowers |
| Meaning | Having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties. | |
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| Synonyms | sea squill, squill, Urginea maritima | |
| Member of | Urginea, genus Urginea | Mediterranean liliaceous plants |
| Parts | squill | bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant |
| Broader | liliaceous plant | plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber |
| Catalan | Urginea maritima | |
| Meaning | European scilla with small blue or purple flowers. | |
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| Synonyms | spring squill, Scilla verna | |
| Broader | 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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