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SEA ONION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

European scilla with small blue or purple flowers

Synonyms:

Scilla verna; sea onion; spring squill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

sea onion; sea squill; squill; Urginea maritima

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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