What's the difference between liliaceous and squill?

Liliaceous


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of which the lily, tulip, and hyacinth are well-known examples.
  • (a.) Like the blossom of a lily in general form.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Large quantities of intact generative cells and their protoplasts were isolated from pollen protoplasts of four liliaceous plants, and their structural features were investigated.
  • (2) Morex) stems and leaf sheaths, was used to elucidate the chemical structures of several oligomeric fructans extracted from liliaceous and graminaceous species.
  • (3) The premeiotic and meiotic stages are described in the pollen mother cells of the liliaceous plant Eremurus.
  • (4) XET was detected in extracts of the growing portions of dicotyledons, monocotyledons (graminaceous and liliaceous) and bryophytes.

Squill


Definition:

  • (n.) A mantis.
  • (n.) A European bulbous liliaceous plant (Urginea, formerly Scilla, maritima), of acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties used in medicine. Called also sea onion.
  • (n.) Any bulbous plant of the genus Scilla; as, the bluebell squill (S. mutans).
  • (n.) A squilla.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Red squill bulbs, with reported specific rodenticidal properties, have been assayed for their content of the two main glycosides, scilliroside and scillaren A, by a method depending on the separation of the glycosides from purified plant extracts by tlc followed by spectrophotometric (uv and visible) determination of the individual glycosides in the eluates.
  • (2) The structure of sinistrin from red squill (Urginea maritima) was determined by methylation analysis and 13C NMR spectroscopy, using the fructans from Pucinella peisonis and quack-grass (Agropyron repens) as reference substances.
  • (3) The method was found convenient for assessment of the potency of red squill bulbs.
  • (4) In a randomized, controlled, double-blind study 2 groups of 7 patients each with coronary heart disease received either 1 mg methylproscillaridin (MP) a cardiac glycoside of the squill intravenously, or placebo to test the inotropic effect of MP.

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