1. Plant having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
   "Sea squills bloomed along the Mediterranean coast";
   - sea squill, sea onion, Urginea maritima
    
2. An Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink, blue or white racemose flowers
   "Blue squill flowers created a carpet of colour in early spring";
   - scilla
    
3. Bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant
   "Traditional herbalists recommended squill for respiratory ailments"

Derived forms: squills

Type of: bulb, liliaceous plant

Part of: genus Scilla, genus Urginea, Urginea

Encyclopedia: Squill