• (British) IPA: /ˈsɪlə/

scilla (plural scillas)

1. A plant of the genus Scilla; a squill.
2. (pharmacology) A bulb of Urginea scilla.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition II, section 4, member 2, subsection i:

     Scilla, or sea onyon, hot and dry in the third degree.