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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
squill is a noun meaning "bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant". It carries 3 recorded senses.
bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant
having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for squill come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.