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Squill

noun
1.
Bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant.
2.
Having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties.  Synonyms: sea onion, sea squill, Urginea maritima.
3.
An Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers.  Synonym: scilla.



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"Squill" Quotes from Famous Books



... one ill—of heartburn. You note it, I presume, Morson? Go quick, and fetch a squill from some ...
— Theocritus • Theocritus
... body was symmetrical, but his head was long out of all proportion; for which reason in nearly all his statues he is represented wearing a helmet, as the sculptors did not wish, I suppose, to reproach him with this blemish. The Attic poets called him squill-head, and the comic poet, Kratinus, in his play ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) • Plutarch
... almost all the images and statues that were made of him have the head covered with a helmet, the workmen not apparently being willing to expose him. The poets of Athens called him "Schinocephalos," or squill-head, from "schinos," a squill, ...
— The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch - Being Parts of The "Lives" of Plutarch • Plutarch


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