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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
   - sea squill, sea onion, Urginea maritima
    
3. An Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers
   - scilla

Derived forms: squills

Type of: bulb, liliaceous plant

Part of: genus Scilla, genus Urginea, Urginea

Encyclopedia: Squill