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red squill definition

red squill

  1. a variety of sea onion having red bulbs which yield a powder used chiefly in rat poison
  2. this powder

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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