squill

IPA: skwˈɪɫ

A European bulbous liliaceous plant, of the genus Scilla, used in medicine for its acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties
A sea onion (Drimia maritima)
A mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis, from the Mediterranean

Examples of "squill" in Sentences

Blue Squill is a much over worked name for a variety of plants.
For a time it seemed as if squill was right to be so confident.
The snowdrops bloom first, followed by the Siberian squill and daffodils.
The 'Spring Beauty' Siberian squill flourishes in colder parts of the country.
I have my cocillana squill syrup though, which I just took another hit of, and it seems to be working.
When the hole is four inches deep, I plant a dozen Siberian squill and cover the bulbs up to two inches from the top.
As the snowdrops and winter aconite begin to depart, glory-of-the-snow, Siberian squill, dwarf iris, and puschkinia might arrive.
The hillside was covered with scatter rugs of snowdrops in late winter and a blue wall-to-wall carpet of Siberian squill in early spring.
The slope was originally covered with grass and a few patches of snowdrops, Siberian squill and glory-of-the-snow that the previous owner had planted.
Fulmars, uncharacteristically quiet today, sit on their ledges among more splashes of bright pink, cascades of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and the last of the blue spring squill.
Granite bedrock and boulders – all encrusted with lichens – are lapped in clumps of white bladder campion and pink thrift, drifts of bluebells and patches of turf starred with vernal squill (the seaside bluebell).