sea onion

English Thesaurus

1. European scilla with small blue or purple flowers (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	scilla, squill,
definition	:	an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers (noun.plant)

2. having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	liliaceous plant,
definition	:	plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber (noun.plant)

part holonym	:	squill,
definition	:	bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus urginea, urginea,
definition	:	Mediterranean liliaceous plants; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae (noun.plant)