a Mediterranean plant of the lily family with white flowers and broad leaves, that reproduces by bulbs: Drimia maritima
(also in pl, but treated as sing.) an extract of this bulb, used medicinally, e.g. as an expectorant
any of several species of plants resembling the hyacinth, with violet or blue-striped flowers: Scilla verna, Puschkinia scilloides, and other species
= squilla
[Middle English via Latin squilla, scilla sea onion, shrimp, from Greek skilla]