urginea maritima

Questions about urginea maritima

What does urginea maritima mean?

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

What is another word for urginea maritima?

Close synonyms include sea squill, sea onion, squill. 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 urginea maritima a common word?

urginea maritima 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.