sea onion

English

sea onions Drimia maritima

Alternative forms

• sea-onion

Etymology

Referring to its coastal habitat and onion-like bulb.

Noun

sea onion (plural sea onions)

1. A sea squill (Drimia maritima), a plant native to Mediterranean and adjoining coasts.
2. A spring squill (Scilla verna), a plant of Atlantic Europe.

Synonyms

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

Hyponyms

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

Translations

Drimia maritima

• Arabic: إشْقِيل m (ʔišqīl), بَصَل الفَأْر m (baṣal al-faʔr), عُنْصُل m (ʕunṣul)
• 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: sjölök c
• 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: sterhyacint (nl) f
• Finnish: atlantinsinililja
• French: scille des printemps f
• German: Frühlingsblaustern m
• Irish: sciolla earraigh m
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: cila f
• Swedish: norsk blåstjärna c

References

• “sea onion”, in 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