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red squill in American English 1. a variety of sea onion having red bulbs which yield a powder used chiefly in rat poison red squill in American Englishnouna variety of squill whose bulbs are red, used chiefly as a rat poison Word origin [1730–40 ]This word is first recorded in the period 1730–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: chenille, modernism, optimism, secret service, thesaurus |