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SCILLA

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Meaning:

An Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers

Synonyms:

scilla; squill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("scilla" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scilla"):

Scilla verna; sea onion; spring squill (European scilla with small blue or purple flowers)

Holonyms ("scilla" is a member of...):

genus Scilla (sometimes placed in subfamily Hyacinthaceae)

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