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LEOPARD LILY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry

Synonyms:

Belamcanda chinensis; blackberry-lily; leopard lily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

iridaceous plant (any bulbous plant of the family Iridaceae)

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

Belamcanda; genus Belamcanda (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lily of southeastern United States having cup-shaped flowers with deep yellow to scarlet recurved petals

Synonyms:

leopard lily; Lilium catesbaei; pine lily; tiger lily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

lily (any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Lily of western United States having orange-red to crimson maroon-spotted flowers

Synonyms:

leopard lily; Lilium pardalinum; panther lily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

lily (any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers)

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