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cevadilla

cevadilla 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 cevadilla

pluralcevadillas

Questions about cevadilla

What is cevadilla the archaic form of?
Cevadilla is the archaic form of sabadilla.

Words near cevadilla in the dictionary

  1. Ceuta
  2. Ceutan
  3. Ceutans
  4. Ceva's theorem
  5. cevadic acid
  6. cevadilla
  7. cevadillas
  8. cevadilline
  9. cevadine
  10. Cevallos
  11. Cevalloses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cevadilla (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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