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SEA SQUILL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

sea onion; sea squill; squill; Urginea maritima

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "sea squill"):

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

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

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

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