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FRITILLARY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fritillary" is a kind of...):
brush-footed butterfly; four-footed butterfly; nymphalid; nymphalid butterfly (medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fritillary"):
silverspot (butterfly with silver spots on the underside of the hind wings)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers
Synonyms:
checkered lily; fritillary
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fritillary" is a kind of...):
bulbous plant (plant growing from a bulb)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fritillary"):
Fritillaria affinis; Fritillaria lanceolata; Fritillaria mutica; mission bells; rice-grain fritillary (herb of northwestern America having green-and-purple bell-shaped flowers)
black fritillary; Fritillaria biflora; mission bells (herb of southwestern United States having dark purple bell-shaped flowers mottled with green)
Fritillaria agrestis; stink bell (a malodorous California herb with bell-shaped flowers; a common weed in grainfields)
crown imperial; Fritillaria imperialis (Eurasian herb with a cluster of leaves and orange-red bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem)
Fritillaria liliaceae; white fritillary (California herb with white conic or bell-shaped flowers usually tinged with green)
checkered daffodil; Fritillaria meleagris; guinea-hen flower; leper lily; snake's head fritillary (Eurasian checkered lily with pendant flowers usually veined and checkered with purple or maroon on a pale ground and shaped like the bells carried by lepers in medieval times; widely grown as an ornamental)
brown bells; Fritillaria micrantha; Fritillaria parviflora (California herb with brownish-purple or greenish bell-shaped flowers)
adobe lily; Fritillaria pluriflora; pink fritillary (California herb with pinkish purple flowers)
Fritillaria recurva; scarlet fritillary (western United States herb with scarlet and yellow narrow bell-shaped flowers)
Holonyms ("fritillary" is a member of...):
Fritillaria; genus Fritillaria (fritillary)
