LILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lily mean? 

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

1. any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LILY (noun)

Meaning:

Any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("lily" 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 "lily"):

Lilium superbum; Turk's cap-lily; Turk's-cap (lily of the eastern United States with orange to red maroon-spotted flowers)

Lilium philadelphicum; wood lily (lily of eastern North America having orange to orange-red purple-spotted flowers)

leopard lily; Lilium pardalinum; panther lily (lily of western United States having orange-red to crimson maroon-spotted flowers)

Lilium michiganense; Michigan lily (lily of central North America having recurved orange-red flowers with deep crimson spots)

Lilium martagon; martagon; Turk's-cap (lily with small dull purple flowers of northwestern Europe and northwestern Asia)

coast lily; Lilium maritinum (orange-flowered lily of Pacific coast of United States)

Bermuda lily; Easter lily; Lilium longiflorum; white trumpet lily (tall lily have large white trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom in the spring)

devil lily; kentan; Lilium lancifolium; tiger lily (east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals)

Columbia tiger lily; Lilium columbianum; Oregon lily (lily of western North America with showy orange-red purple-spotted flowers)

leopard lily; Lilium catesbaei; pine lily; tiger lily (lily of southeastern United States having cup-shaped flowers with deep yellow to scarlet recurved petals)

Annunciation lily; Lent lily; Lilium candidum; Madonna lily; white lily (lily of eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans with broad funnel-shaped white flowers)

Canada lily; Lilium canadense; meadow lily; wild meadow lily; wild yellow lily (common lily of the eastern United States having nodding yellow or reddish flowers spotted with brown)

Lilium auratum; mountain lily (Japanese lily with golden rays)

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

genus Lilium; Lilium (type genus of Liliaceae)