sea onion

sea onion

English

sea onions Drimia maritima

Etymology

Referring to its coastal habitat and onion-like bulb.

Noun

sea onion (plural sea onions)

1. Drimia maritima, the sea squill, native to Mediterranean and adjoining coasts.
2. Scilla verna, the spring squill, of Atlantic Europe.

Alternative forms

• sea-onion

Synonyms

• (Drimia maritima): squill, maritime squill, red squill

Hyponyms

• (Drimia maritima): red squill (color form)

Translations

Drimia maritima

Arabic: إشْقِيل‎ m (ʾišqīl), بَصَل الفَأْر‎ m (baṣal al-faʾr), عُنْصُل‎ m (ʿunṣul) Bulgarian: мо́рски лук m (mórski luk) Catalan: ceba marina f Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: merisipuli (fi), jättimerisipuli (fi) French: scille maritime f, oignon marin m, scille rouge f German: Meerzwiebel f Greek: Ancient Greek: σκίλλα f (skílla) Hebrew: חָצָב‎ (he) m (ẖatzáv) Italian: cipolla marina f Ottoman Turkish: آطه صوغانی‎ (ada soğanı) Portuguese: cebola do mar f, scilla f, cebola-albarrã (pt) f Russian: морско́й лук m (morskój luk) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мо̀рскӣ лу̏к m Latin: mòrskī lȕk m Spanish: ceba marina f, cebolla albarrana f, escila f, escila roja f Swedish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: луківка надморська f (lukivka nadmorsʹka) Uzbek: dengiz piyozi

Scilla verna

Basque: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: please add this translation if you can French: please add this translation if you can German: Frühlingsblaustern m Irish: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: cila f

References

• sea onion at OneLook Dictionary Search
• sea onion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Drimia maritima on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Drimia maritima on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Scilla verna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Scilla verna on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Scilla verna on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons