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Definition of Sea squill
1. Noun. Having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties.
Generic synonyms: Liliaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Urginea, Urginea
Terms within: Squill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Squill
Literary usage of Sea squill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Materia Medica and Pharmacy by John Murray (1810)
"Cut the root of the sea squill, its outer covering having been removed, transversely,
into thin slices, and dry it by a.gentle heat. ..."
2. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"... the sea-squill. 33 The leaves are in all cases green, and no other colour;
but in one kind the ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1857)
"This plant has not hitherto been identified; but Dr. Yates is of opinion that it
may very possibly have been the Scilla maritima, sea-squill, which is at ..."
4. Travels in Various Countries of the East: Being a Continuation of Memoirs by Robert Walpole (1820)
"I observed the same plants I had noticed to the north of the town, with the
addition of the sea Squill which was in flower, and the Cichorium spinosum ..."
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