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  • n  bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant
  • n  having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
  • n  an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers

  • Red squill, a plant that resembles the onion, is dried and processed into rat poison.
  • Protein from the sesame supplies the nitrogen need of the body, the squill serves as a mild heart stimulant, and the opium deadens the stomach's hunger pains.
  • Probably the oldest of rat poisons is about the most effective and also the safest: red squill, from the ground root of a European plant.
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  • Nov. 6 in history
    Nov. 6, 1947 - Rat bait to be ready Friday: Red squill rat bait prepared by the United State division of rodent control will be distributed from 25 points in Brown County Friday.
    Nov. 6, 2013 - Green Bay Press-Gazette

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