Crossword clues for squill
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Squill \Squill\ (skw[i^]l), n. [F. squille (also scille a squill, in sense 1), L. squilla, scilla, Gr. ?.]
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(Bot.)
A European bulbous liliaceous plant ( Urginea maritima, formerly Scilla maritima), of acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties, used in medicine. Called also sea onion.
Any bulbous plant of the genus Scilla; as, the bluebell squill ( Scilla mutans).
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(Zo["o]l.)
A squilla.
A mantis.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A European bulbous liliaceous plant, of the genus ''Scilla'', used in medicine for its acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties 2 A mantis shrimp, (taxlink Squilla mantis species noshow=1), from the Mediterranean
WordNet
n. 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 [syn: sea squill, sea onion, Urginea maritima]
an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers [syn: scilla]
Wikipedia
Squill is a common name for several lily-like plants and may refer to:
- Drimia maritima, a historically important medicinal plant, native to the Mediterranean, formerly classified as Scilla maritima
- Scilla, a genus of plants which formerly included Drimia maritima, and which are cultivated for their ornamental flowers, native to Europe and Asia
Usage examples of "squill".
Red squill is a well used rat poison by folks with kids and pets to worry about because it only makes a kid, a cat, or a dog puke like hell.
I commented on the yellowing sweeps of the willows, on the odd batches of crocus or squill here and there.
Unless this was something like red squill, the stuff used to poison rats without making them sick immediately, this pseudo-apple-peach-strawberry would do.
Quite recovered, the boys clamored to go with him, for they had been told it was not very far, and that the way was 84 all shops, including one which sold squill candy.
I would not say bouquets may be gathered in the depth of winter, but what will be equally cheering may be had in blow, such as the Bluet, Violet, Primrose, Christmas Rose, Crocus, Hepatica, Squills, Snowdrops, and other less known winter bloomers.
The leaves, from their flaccidness and narrowness, compared with the squills, may be described as grassy.
Behind her glasses her eyes were the pale blue of the finest paper and the whites too appeared bluish, with the finest squills of red.
There were squills and ivy all over the Academy, embroidered on the curtains in each bedroom, and on all the cushions and screens, painted in a frieze around the wall of the parlour, and even stamped on the pats of butter.
Wilfrid gets sent to bed because Winnie has not practised her scales, and Winnie is given syrup of squills because Wilfried has been eating green gooseberries.
But at least I did find a very considerable quantity of squills by the sea-shore: these I have conserved in a woven basket.
Do you suppose one of your squills would be a good thing, in a general way, to set a man up?
As long as Squiller was with her, she felt, she would survive whatever lay ahead.
Whenever this happened, Squiller automatically clamped himself more tightly to her head, like a climber clinging for dear life to a rock face.
Poor Squiller had obviously thought they were going to fall to their doom and had lost control of his squiddish bladder in his panic.
Followell Street, where she could lay Squiller to rest beside Monty the canary and several deceased goldfish: the companions of her childhood.