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sea onion

NOUN
  1. having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
  2. European scilla with small blue or purple flowers

How To Use sea onion In A Sentence

  • Lamb associates with cod's head: nor has it on the other hand that fine falling off flakiness, that obsequious peeling off (as it were like a sea onion) which endears your cods head & shoulders to some appetites, that manly firmness combined with a sort of womanish coming-in-pieces which the same cods head Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
  • Vinegar flavoured with squill (also known as ‘sea onion’, Urginea maritima) was a favourite condiment.
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