单词 | white squill |
释义 | > as lemmaswhite squill white squill n. the white-scaled bulb of a form of the sea onion, Drimia maritima, or a preparation made from this, (formerly) used medicinally and as a rodenticide; (also) the plant itself; cf. red squill n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1e(d). ΚΠ 1649 N. Culpeper Physicall Directory 95 Take of white Squills of the mountains, gathered about the rising of the Dog-star, and cut in thin peices. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Scilla Scilla; radice alba... The White Squil. 1849 G. B. Wood & F. Bache Dispensatory U.S.A. (ed. 8) i. 646 There are two varieties, distinguished as the red and white squill. 1942 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 90 149 Samples of white squill sent from Cyprus recently appeared to be of excellent quality. 2013 C. Williams Medicinal Plants Austral. IV. i. 27/1 White Squill..is an effective diuretic and cardiac tonic. < as lemmas |
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