scilla

From Latin scilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla), ultimately a foreign loan akin to Pre-Greek *skil'a.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlə/

scilla (plural scillas)

1. (botany) A plant of the genus Scilla; a squill.
2. (pharmacology) A bulb of Urginea scilla.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 4, member 2, subsection i:

     Scilla, or sea onyon, hot and dry in the third degree.

• Callis, lilacs

From Latin scilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla), ultimately a foreign loan akin to Pre-Greek *skil'a.

scilla f (plural scille)

1. squill (plant of the genus Scilla)