AVALANCHE LILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Perennial herb having large white flowers marked with orange; found near the snow line in the northwestern United States

Synonyms:

avalanche lily; Erythronium montanum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("avalanche lily" is a kind of...):

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

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

Erythronium; genus Erythronium (perennial bulbous herbs most of northern United States: dogtooth violet; adder's tongue; trout lily; fawn lily)

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