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DAYLILY

• DAYLILY (noun)
The noun DAYLILY has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lilylike flowers that bloom for only a day

Familiarity information: DAYLILY used as a noun is very rare.

• DAYLILY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lilylike flowers that bloom for only a day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

daylily; day lily

Hypernyms ("daylily" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "daylily"):

Hemerocallis flava; Hemerocallis lilio-asphodelus; lemon lily (a day lily with yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("daylily" is a member of...):

genus Hemerocallis; Hemerocallis (east Asian rhizomatous clump-forming perennial herbs having flowers on long leafless stalks; cosmopolitan in cultivation: day lilies; sometimes placed in subfamily Hemerocallidaceae)

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