Crossword clues for scilla
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scillain \Scil"la*in\, n. (Chem.) A glucoside extracted from squill ( Scilla) as a light porous substance.
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).
WordNet
n. an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers [syn: squill]
Wikipedia
Scilla (; Squill) is a genus of about 50 to 80 bulb-forming perennial herbs in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, native to woodlands, subalpine meadows, and seashores throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle-East. A few species are also naturalized in Australia, New Zealand and North America. Their flowers are usually blue, but white, pink, and purple types are known; most flower in early spring, but a few are autumn-flowering.
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.