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Definition of squill in English: squillnoun skwɪlskwil 1A coastal Mediterranean plant of the lily family, with broad leaves, white flowers, and a very large bulb. 海葱 Drimia or 'Urginea' maritima, family Liliaceae Example sentencesExamples - A number of herbs including oleander, adonis, black Indian hemp, black hellebore, lily-of-the-valley, squill, and strophanthus contain an active cardiac glycoside that can potentiate digoxin.
- Large bulbs such as tulips and daffodils should be placed four to six inches apart while smaller bulbs such as crocus, snowdrops, and squill, should be placed one to two inches apart.
- ‘If one of us had a cough, Mam would send me to the chemist for a ‘shilling mix’ (bring your own bottle), which consisted of three-penny-worth each of glycerine, syrup of squills, liquorice, and ipecac wine.
- Meanwhile, the island nation exported to America items such as olive oil, lemons, sulphur, ivory, salt, rags, goat skins, stoneware, soap, squills, sponges, and donkeys of the largest and most valuable race in the Mediterranean.
- Scilla, or squill, is a naturalizing bulb that produces clusters of 1-inch, bell-shaped blooms in blue, purple, pink and white on 6-to 10-inch stems.
- 1.1also squillsmass noun An extract of the bulb of the squill, which is poisonous and has medicinal and other uses.
海葱鳞茎的提取物 Example sentencesExamples - Expectorants for example guaiphenesin, ammonium chloride, squill, sodium citrate and ipecacuanha may help chesty coughs.
- Vinegar flavoured with squill (also known as ‘sea onion’, Urginea maritima) was a favourite condiment.
- Some drug materials, e.g. garlic and squill, are extremely hygroscopic and in the presence of water tend to fuse into lumps which make them unsuitable for the percolation process.
2usually with modifier A small plant of the lily family, which resembles a hyacinth and has slender straplike leaves and small clusters of violet-blue or blue-striped flowers. 绵枣儿 Several species in the family Liliaceae: genus Scilla, including the spring squill (S. verna), and the striped squill (Puschkinia scilloides) Example sentencesExamples - The coastal cliffs and headlands form a natural rockery where primrose, roseroot, thrift, bladder campion, mountain avens, marram grass, violets and spring squills may be found.
- In spring the island is carpeted in bluebells and spring squills.
- Occasionally spring squill are found in grassy areas away from the coast.
- The first plants to appear with the melting snows include drifts of spring and trumpet gentians, Narcissus asturiensis and spring squill.
- Lesser celandine and bulbous buttercup supply colour in spring, ragwort and carlile thistle in autumn, but the main burst of flowering is in May, when the varied pinks of a multitude of thrift cushions spreads upwards from the South and West and the north-western turf is starred with the blue of spring squills.
- In early summer, the ledges and cliff tops are carpeted with wild flowers such as bird's foot trefoil, kidney vetch, spring squill and thrift.
- Many are small bulbs, primarily Crocus tommasianus, snowdrops, Iris reticulata and striped squill or pushkinia.
- Winter aconite, snowdrop, and striped squill flower in February or March.
- Abundant marsh-marigold, northern marsh-orchid and meadowsweet occur in wetter ground; carpets of spring squill, bird's foot-trefoil and heath spotted-orchid cover cliff tops; the wetter heaths turn golden with bog asphodel; and grazing-sensitive kidney vetch and wild angelica have re-colonised some seasonally grazed pastures.
- Along with the various scillas, consideration must be given to the striped squills or Puschkinias.
- Blue is taken up by the spring squills, with their small, clear flowers surrounded by agitated leaves.
- There is a good display of common primrose on cliffsides and stream banks and of blue spring squill in coastal heaths at Corbiegoe, Dwarick, Dunnet and Duncansby Head.
- In the springy short turf along the coast grow species including sea pink, spring squill, bird's foot trefoil, sea campion, scurvy grass and sheep's bit which also transform some stretches of cliff into colourful ` hanging gardens’.
- Along the coastal margin, the spring squill makes hazy blue carpets in early spring.
- The clifftop has spectacular displays of sea campion, thrift and spring squill.
- The picture above shows volunteer Dutchman's breeches, blue and striped squills, and Trillium recurvatum.
- I love the tiny tete a tete daffodils and spring squills, grape hyacinths and species Irises, but so does Puppy.
- With striped squill, the corona is made up of ‘fused filaments’ and the flowers ‘do not open flat.’
- Meanwhile on land, the spring flowers were also showing in some splendour - these spring squill had formed dense mats on some rocky parts of the machair, while the burns were a mass of marsh marigolds in parts.
- Blue harebells and spring squill grew along the cliff path.
OriginLate Middle English: via Latin from Greek skilla. Rhymesbill, Brazil, brill, Camille, chill, cookchill, dill, distil (US distill), downhill, drill, Edgehill, Estoril, fill, freewill, frill, fulfil (US fulfill), Gill, goodwill, grill, grille, hill, ill, instil, kill, krill, mil, mill, nil, Phil, pill, quadrille, quill, rill, Seville, shill, shrill, sill, skill, spadille, spill, still, stock-still, swill, thill, thrill, till, trill, twill, until, uphill, will Definition of squill in US English: squillnounskwil 1A coastal Mediterranean plant of the lily family, with broad leaves, white flowers, and a very large bulb. 海葱 Drimia or 'Urginea' maritima, family Liliaceae Example sentencesExamples - Large bulbs such as tulips and daffodils should be placed four to six inches apart while smaller bulbs such as crocus, snowdrops, and squill, should be placed one to two inches apart.
- A number of herbs including oleander, adonis, black Indian hemp, black hellebore, lily-of-the-valley, squill, and strophanthus contain an active cardiac glycoside that can potentiate digoxin.
- Meanwhile, the island nation exported to America items such as olive oil, lemons, sulphur, ivory, salt, rags, goat skins, stoneware, soap, squills, sponges, and donkeys of the largest and most valuable race in the Mediterranean.
- ‘If one of us had a cough, Mam would send me to the chemist for a ‘shilling mix’ (bring your own bottle), which consisted of three-penny-worth each of glycerine, syrup of squills, liquorice, and ipecac wine.
- Scilla, or squill, is a naturalizing bulb that produces clusters of 1-inch, bell-shaped blooms in blue, purple, pink and white on 6-to 10-inch stems.
- 1.1also squills An extract of the bulb of the squill, which is poisonous and has medicinal and other uses.
海葱鳞茎的提取物 Example sentencesExamples - Some drug materials, e.g. garlic and squill, are extremely hygroscopic and in the presence of water tend to fuse into lumps which make them unsuitable for the percolation process.
- Expectorants for example guaiphenesin, ammonium chloride, squill, sodium citrate and ipecacuanha may help chesty coughs.
- Vinegar flavoured with squill (also known as ‘sea onion’, Urginea maritima) was a favourite condiment.
2usually with modifier A small plant of the lily family, which resembles a hyacinth and has slender straplike leaves and small clusters of violet-blue or blue-striped flowers. 绵枣儿 Several species in the family Liliaceae, including the spring squill (Scilla verna), and the striped squill (Puschkinia scilloides) Example sentencesExamples - Many are small bulbs, primarily Crocus tommasianus, snowdrops, Iris reticulata and striped squill or pushkinia.
- The first plants to appear with the melting snows include drifts of spring and trumpet gentians, Narcissus asturiensis and spring squill.
- With striped squill, the corona is made up of ‘fused filaments’ and the flowers ‘do not open flat.’
- Lesser celandine and bulbous buttercup supply colour in spring, ragwort and carlile thistle in autumn, but the main burst of flowering is in May, when the varied pinks of a multitude of thrift cushions spreads upwards from the South and West and the north-western turf is starred with the blue of spring squills.
- The picture above shows volunteer Dutchman's breeches, blue and striped squills, and Trillium recurvatum.
- Along with the various scillas, consideration must be given to the striped squills or Puschkinias.
- The coastal cliffs and headlands form a natural rockery where primrose, roseroot, thrift, bladder campion, mountain avens, marram grass, violets and spring squills may be found.
- There is a good display of common primrose on cliffsides and stream banks and of blue spring squill in coastal heaths at Corbiegoe, Dwarick, Dunnet and Duncansby Head.
- The clifftop has spectacular displays of sea campion, thrift and spring squill.
- Winter aconite, snowdrop, and striped squill flower in February or March.
- Blue harebells and spring squill grew along the cliff path.
- Blue is taken up by the spring squills, with their small, clear flowers surrounded by agitated leaves.
- In the springy short turf along the coast grow species including sea pink, spring squill, bird's foot trefoil, sea campion, scurvy grass and sheep's bit which also transform some stretches of cliff into colourful ` hanging gardens’.
- In early summer, the ledges and cliff tops are carpeted with wild flowers such as bird's foot trefoil, kidney vetch, spring squill and thrift.
- Along the coastal margin, the spring squill makes hazy blue carpets in early spring.
- I love the tiny tete a tete daffodils and spring squills, grape hyacinths and species Irises, but so does Puppy.
- Meanwhile on land, the spring flowers were also showing in some splendour - these spring squill had formed dense mats on some rocky parts of the machair, while the burns were a mass of marsh marigolds in parts.
- Occasionally spring squill are found in grassy areas away from the coast.
- In spring the island is carpeted in bluebells and spring squills.
- Abundant marsh-marigold, northern marsh-orchid and meadowsweet occur in wetter ground; carpets of spring squill, bird's foot-trefoil and heath spotted-orchid cover cliff tops; the wetter heaths turn golden with bog asphodel; and grazing-sensitive kidney vetch and wild angelica have re-colonised some seasonally grazed pastures.
OriginLate Middle English: via Latin from Greek skilla. |