[Remark: this dictionary entry has no valid XML/HTML content in database so a text version of this entry is shown.]: <orth>Scilla</orth>, siue, vt Varro appellat, squilla. Pli. <p> <sense><trans lang="en">An hearbe <04> a roote like an ouyon, growing both on the sea and land.</trans> </sense>
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
scĭlla (squilla), ae, f., = ski/lla.I.A sea-onion, sea-leek, squill: Scilla maritima, Linn.; Plin. 19, 5, 30, 93; 20, 9, 39, 97; 21, 17, 66, 106; Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 8; Col. 12, 33; 12, 34; Pall. Febr. 29, 2; id. Mart. 10, 4; id. Jul. 8, 1 al.—II.A small fish of the lobster kind, which defends the pinna, a prawn, shrimp: Cancer squilla, Linn.; in this sense more usually written squilla, Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 123; Plin. 9, 42, 66, 142; Lucil. ap. Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 24; Hor. S. 2, 4, 58; 2, 8, 42; Mart. 13, 83.