WOOD LILY
Dictionary entry overview: What does wood lily mean?
• WOOD LILY (noun)
The noun WOOD LILY has 2 senses:
1. any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower
2. lily of eastern North America having orange to orange-red purple-spotted flowers
Familiarity information: WOOD LILY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WOOD LILY (noun)
Meaning:
Any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
trillium; wake-robin; wood lily
Hypernyms ("wood 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 "wood lily"):
prairie trillium; prairie wake-robin; Trillium recurvatum (trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowers)
dwarf-white trillium; early wake-robin; snow trillium (a low perennial white-flowered trillium found in the southeastern United States)
birthroot; purple trillium; red trillium; Trillium erectum (trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth)
red trillium; sessile trillium; toadshade; Trillium sessile (trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor)
Holonyms ("wood lily" is a member of...):
genus Trillium (deciduous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae)
Meaning:
Lily of eastern North America having orange to orange-red purple-spotted flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Lilium philadelphicum; wood lily
Hypernyms ("wood lily" is a kind of...):
lily (any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers)
