sea squill

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

   Synonymssea onionsquillUrginea maritima

   Broaderliliaceous plant

   Part ofUrginea

   Partssquill

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.