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- noun Plural form of
scilla .
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Examples
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And the scillas might be the spring sky, and the crocuses the spring sunshine – that is, the yellow ones.
Gardening by Myself 1872
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The gardens first open on 1 April 2009 and visitors in early spring will be rewarded with a fine display of blossom, flowering magnolia, camellia, daffodils and narcissi and banks of pale blue scillas and primroses.
Archive 2009-03-01 Thatsnews 2009
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The starfish were amazing, the way their little scillas or whatever they are moved them along, and tickled was a treat for the kids and adults too.
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The gardens first open on 1 April 2009 and visitors in early spring will be rewarded with a fine display of blossom, flowering magnolia, camellia, daffodils and narcissi and banks of pale blue scillas and primroses.
Bluebell And Spring Spectacular At Hole Park Gardens Thatsnews 2009
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The scillas are about to end the blooming now, but some perennials I bought last year are flowering or sprouting now.
Meme: Important books? searchingbuddha 2008
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So plant some bulbs, at least twenty-five, of scillas, snowdrops, snowflakes (Leucojum vernum).
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As all its names, common and botanical, denote, this charming bulbous plant is like the scillas; it may, therefore, be useful to point out the distinctions which divide them.
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She looked out at the strip of turf, so bright that one would think it wet, and lighted here and there with snowdrops and scillas and crocuses, that runs between the drive and the tangle of silver birch and bramble and fern.
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To the monthly rose and straggly little brown-red chrysanthemums in the tiny hothouse there had succeeded spring flowers -- a few hardy January snowdrops, and one by one blue scillas, and the little pale daffodils called "angels 'tears."
Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900
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About noon she went out into her garden, and from under the glass plucked every flower that grew there -- snowdrops, scillas, "angels 'tears," quite two dozen blossoms.
Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900
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