- a variety of sea onion having red bulbs which yield a powder used chiefly in rat poison
- this powder
red squill


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red squill

noun
- A variety of the squill Urginea maritima having reddish bulbs.
- A powder prepared from the bulbs of this plant and used as a rat poison.
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red squill - Medical Definition
n.
- A variety of the squill Urginea maritima having reddish bulbs.
- A powder prepared from the bulbs of this plant and used as a rat poison.
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