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sea-onion

sea-onion is the obsolete form of sea onion.

Meaning of sea onion

Noun

sea onion (plural sea onions)

  1. A sea squill (Drimia maritima), a plant native to Mediterranean and adjoining coasts.
    Synonyms:
    squill, maritime squill, red squill
  2. A spring squill (Scilla verna), a plant of Atlantic Europe.

Forms of sea-onion

pluralsea-onions

Questions about sea-onion

What is sea-onion the obsolete form of?
Sea-onion is the obsolete form of sea onion.

Words near sea-onion in the dictionary

  1. sea-mushroom
  2. sea-mushrooms
  3. sea-myrtle
  4. sea-nymph
  5. sea-nymphs
  6. sea-onion
  7. sea-onions
  8. sea-orange
  9. sea-oranges
  10. sea-ox
  11. sea-oxen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sea-onion (page history and authors); sea onion (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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