scilla

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers

Borrowed from Latin scilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla). Doublet of squill.

"Almost, my dear," the Scilla replied; "I'll follow as soon as you go." — Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two, Various
About noon she went out into her garden, and from under the glass plucked every flower that grew there--snowdrops, scillas, "angels' tears," quite two dozen blossoms. — Tatterdemalion, John Galsworthy
Again it came, stirring the celadon-green carpet of veld that is spread at the feet of the Magaliesberg Ranges, that were turquoise-blue as the scillas growing in the South Welsh garden that lies before the window where I write, this variable spring day. — The Dop Doctor, Richard Dehan

squill

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