sea squill

Questions about sea squill

What does sea squill mean?

sea squill means "having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties".

What is another word for sea squill?

Close synonyms include sea onion, squill, Urginea maritima. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sea squill a common word?

sea squill is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.