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DAYLILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day

Synonyms:

day lily; daylily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("daylily" 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 "daylily"):

Hemerocallis flava; Hemerocallis lilio-asphodelus; lemon lily (a day lily with yellow flowers)

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

genus Hemerocallis; Hemerocallis (east Asian rhizomatous clump-forming perennial herbs having flowers on long leafless stalks; cosmopolitan in cultivation: day lilies; sometimes placed in subfamily Hemerocallidaceae)

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