FAIRY LANTERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fairy lantern mean? 

• FAIRY LANTERN (noun)
  The noun FAIRY LANTERN has 1 sense:

1. any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowers

  Familiarity information: FAIRY LANTERN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAIRY LANTERN (noun)

Meaning:

Any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

fairy lantern; globe lily

Hypernyms ("fairy lantern" 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 "fairy lantern"):

Calochortus albus; white fairy lantern; white globe lily (globe lily having open branched clusters of egg-shaped white flowers; southern California)

Calochortus amabilis; golden fairy lantern; yellow globe lily (globe lily having open branched clusters of clear yellow egg-shaped flowers; northern California)

Calochortus amoenus; rose globe lily (globe lily with deep rose-pink or purple egg-shaped flowers on flexuous stems; western slopes of Sierra Nevada in San Joaquin Valley)

Holonyms ("fairy lantern" is a member of...):

Calochortus; genus Calochortus (large genus of western North American leafy-stemmed bulbous herbs)