Meanings
nounscilla (plural scillas)
plural scillas
- medicineA bulb of Urginea scilla.
Scilla, or sea onyon, hot and dry in the third degree.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 2, subsection i
Synonyms & antonyms
nounan Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers
Similar
Broader
liliaceous plant
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Origin
- Ancient Greekσκίλλα
- Latinscilla
- Englishscilla
Borrowed from Latin scilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla). Doublet of squill.
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Rhymes with scilla
villamanilaAnguillagorillaGodzillaPriscillachinchillaflotillamanillaSillascintillaScyllaDrusillamaxillacedillapapillaaxillahydrillacamarillabarillamantillaperillaancillagranadilla
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APA
scilla. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scilla
MLA
“scilla.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scilla. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scilla,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scilla.
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