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Blue spring flower
Answer for the clue "Blue spring flower ", 6 letters:
scilla
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Word definitions for scilla in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers [syn: squill ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context botany English) A plant of the genus ''Scilla''; a squill. 2 (context pharmacology English) A bulb of (taxlink Urginea scilla species noshow=1).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scillain \Scil"la*in\, n. (Chem.) A glucoside extracted from squill ( Scilla ) as a light porous substance.
Usage examples of scilla.
The pink prunus was shedding its petals and they lay like rosy snow, half-covering the scillas.
In the scilla there is no corona, neither a tube, but the petal-like sepals or divisions of the perianth are entire, going to the base of the flower.
They were three mornings out from Zemphis, making good time, and were climbing now towards the rocky pass through the mountains known as the Paps of Scilla (there were eight of them.
Already the blue scilla are beginning to flower, the daffodils have their snouts above ground, the self-seeded forget-me-nots are creeping up, getting ready to hog the light.