squillan.
a. The squill or sea-onion. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Liliaceae family or plants > [noun] > squill or sea-onion
onion?a1425
squillc1440
sea onion1526
squilla1526
French onion1548
scilla1629
vernal squill1796
1526 Grete Herball ccccxiii. sig. Yiv/1 Squilla hath vertue to deuyde and sprede humours.
1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 60 Digestiues of fleume,..Hony, Gynger, Squilla.
1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 30 Certaine rather will, that you sow his hearbe in fashion to a big Onion, and named of the Apothecaries Squilla in the Garden.
1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 87 And Squilla, that keepes men from foule despaire.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Scille, the Squilla, or sea Onion.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Liliaceae family or plants > [noun] > squill or sea-onion > bulb or root
squillc1400
scilla1548
squilla1562
1562 W. Turner Herball (1568) ii. 130 Take the squilla, and couer it round about wyth clay.., and put it into an ouen.
2. = squill n. 4.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > unspecified > resembling squill-fish or mantis-shrimp
squilla1658
squill-insect1681
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Stomatopoda > member of family Squillidae
squilla1658
sea grasshopper1668
squill-fish1681
squill1710
sea mantis1835
squillian1842
mantis crab1850
locust shrimp1867
mantis shrimp1871
mantid1941
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) ii. xxxvii. 1125 They leap quickly one upon the other as the Fishes Squillæ doe in coupling.
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 28 The long-tailed Squilla.
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 28 The Squilla has ten legs, the foremost pair cheliform, or made for pinching and holding things.
1818 Scoresby in Life (1861) vii. 140 The squillæ are very abundant in the Greenland Sea.
1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 189 The common black whale's food, that consists of ‘squillæ’ and other small animals.
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1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) ii. xxxvii. 1124 The Squilla an Insect differs but little from the fish Squilla, but that it hath the sail-yards much shorter, and a more red colour, or rather a more earthly colour.
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