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Definition of Scilla
1. Noun. An Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers.
Generic synonyms: Liliaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Scilla
Specialized synonyms: Scilla Verna, Sea Onion, Spring Squill
Definition of Scilla
1. Noun. (botany) A plant of the genus ''Scilla''; a squill. ¹
2. Noun. (pharmacology) A bulb of ''Urginea scilla''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scilla
1. a flowering plant [n -S]
Medical Definition of Scilla
1. Synonym: squill. Origin: G. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scilla
Literary usage of Scilla
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1790)
"scilla bifolia. Linn. Sj>. PL 443. Jacq. Fl . Aufl. V. г. 11. л 11 7. ...
scilla bifolia grows on the continent in groves and thickets, flowering in the ..."
2. Journal of Science and the Arts by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1817)
"BM scilla sibirica. HK This has been quoted in HK to the plant from the Levant.
... HK scilla verna. HK scilla umbellata. 166. Cited in HK as a synonym ol ..."
3. A Manual of organic materia medica by John Michael Maisch (1890)
"scilla.—SQUILL. Origin. ... resembling dextrin; easily converted into sugar),
scilla,—Bulb, sugar, crystals of calcium oxalate; the active principles are ..."
4. The Essentials of Materia Medica, and Therapeutics by Alfred Baring Garrod (1865)
"scilla. Squill. The bulb, sliced and dried, of Urginea scilla (scilla maritima);
... PILULA scilla COMPOSITA. Compound Squill Pill. (Squill in fine powder, ..."
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