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FRITILLARIA MELEAGRIS

• FRITILLARIA MELEAGRIS (noun)
The noun FRITILLARIA MELEAGRIS has 1 sense:

1. Eurasian checkered lily with pendant flowers usually veined and checkered with purple or maroon on a pale ground and shaped like the bells carried by lepers in medieval times; widely grown as an ornamental

Familiarity information: FRITILLARIA MELEAGRIS used as a noun is very rare.

• FRITILLARIA MELEAGRIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Eurasian checkered lily with pendant flowers usually veined and checkered with purple or maroon on a pale ground and shaped like the bells carried by lepers in medieval times; widely grown as an ornamental

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

checkered daffodil; Fritillaria meleagris; guinea-hen flower; leper lily; snake's head fritillary

Hypernyms ("Fritillaria meleagris" is a kind of...):

checkered lily; fritillary (any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers)

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