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URGINEA MARITIMA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
Synonyms:
sea onion; sea squill; squill; Urginea maritima
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Urginea maritima" is a kind of...):
liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)
Meronyms (parts of "Urginea maritima"):
squill (bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant)
Holonyms ("Urginea maritima" is a member of...):
genus Urginea; Urginea (Mediterranean liliaceous plants; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae)