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cebadilla

cebadilla is the archaic form of sabadilla.

Meaning of sabadilla

Noun

sabadilla (plural sabadillas)

  1. A Mexican and Central American plant of the family Melanthiaceae (Schoenocaulon officinale, syn. Sabadilla officinalis).
  2. The seeds of this plant, used in medicine and insecticides.

Forms of cebadilla

pluralcebadillas

Questions about cebadilla

What is cebadilla the archaic form of?
Cebadilla is the archaic form of sabadilla.

Words near cebadilla in the dictionary

  1. Ceaușism
  2. ceaze
  3. ceazed
  4. ceazes
  5. ceazing
  6. cebadilla
  7. cebadillas
  8. Ceballo
  9. Ceballos
  10. Ceballoses
  11. Cebalrai

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cebadilla (page history and authors); sabadilla (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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