Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun   See onion .
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Examples
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								Scilla, or sea-onion, is hot and dry in the third degree. 
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								At the mouth swallowed or not swallowed: If swallowed liquid or solid: liquid, as compound wine of hellebore, scilla or sea-onion, senna, 
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								The poets of Athens called him Schinocephalos, or squill-head, from schinos, a squill, or sea-onion. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003 
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								(Squill; or sea-onion) 6 oz. Cinnamomi (Cinnamon) 1 lb. Cort [ex] Aurant [orium] (Orange peel) 3 lb. Drug Supplies in the American Revolution George B. Griffenhagen 
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								The poets of Athens called him Schinocephalos, or squill-head, from schinos, a squill, or sea-onion. Pericles Plutarch 1909 
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								a _sea-onion_, the fruit above referred to, as the food of the Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836 
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