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sea onion
Also called sea squill. a Mediterranean plant, Urginea maritima, of the lily family, yielding medicinal squill. -
red squill
a variety of squill whose bulbs are red, used chiefly as a rat poison. -
scillism
poisoning by squill, characterized by vomiting, slow pulse, cardiac arrhythmia, and ventricular fibrillation. -
bufadienolide
any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity. -
cardiac glycoside
any of a group of drugs used to stimulate the heart in cases of heart failure, obtained from a number of plants, as the foxglove, squill, or yellow oleander. -
indigo squill
wild hyacinth.