BLOOD LILY

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Meaning:

Any of various deciduous or evergreen herbs of the genus Haemanthus; South Africa and Namibia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

bulbous plant (plant growing from a bulb)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blood lily"):

Cape tulip; Haemanthus coccineus (spectacular plant having large prostrate leaves barred in reddish-purple and flowers with a clump of long yellow stamens in a coral-red cup of fleshy bracts; South Africa)

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

genus Haemanthus; Haemanthus (genus of African deciduous or evergreen bulbous herbs: blood lilies)

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