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squillae

squillae is the plural of squilla.

Meaning of squilla

Noun

squilla (plural squillas or squillae)

  1. A dinner bell, (historical) a shrill little bell used to signal dinner for medieval monks.
  2. (obsolete) A squill, a sea onion.
  3. A mantis shrimp (Squilla mantis) or other members of the genus Squilla.
  4. (obsolete) An insect resembling a mantis shrimp.

Questions about squillae

What is squillae the plural of?
Squillae is the plural of squilla.

Words near squillae in the dictionary

  1. squill-gee
  2. squill-gees
  3. squilla
  4. Squillace
  5. Squillaces
  6. squillae
  7. squillagee
  8. squillagees
  9. Squillante
  10. Squillantes
  11. squillas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: squillae (page history and authors); squilla (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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