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LILIACEOUS PLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("liliaceous plant" is a kind of...):
bulbous plant (plant growing from a bulb)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liliaceous plant"):
tulip (any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower)
day lily; daylily (any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day)
hyacinth (any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs)
bluebell; harebell; Hyacinthoides nonscripta; Scilla nonscripta; wild hyacinth; wood hyacinth (sometimes placed in genus Scilla)
grape hyacinth (any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes)
scilla; squill (an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers)
false asphodel (a plant of the genus Tofieldia having linear chiefly basal leaves and small spicate flowers)
sea onion; sea squill; squill; Urginea maritima (having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties)
bog asphodel (either of two herbaceous rushlike bog plants having small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves; north temperate regions)
false hellebore; hellebore (perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes)
bear grass; squaw grass; Xerophyllum tenax (plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers)
death camas; zigadene (any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers; all are poisonous)
trillium; wake-robin; wood lily (any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower)
Convallaria majalis; lily of the valley; May lily (low-growing perennial plant having usually two large oblong lanceolate leaves and a raceme of small fragrant nodding bell-shaped flowers followed by scarlet berries)
Clinton's lily; clintonia (any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries)
lily turf; lilyturf; Liriope muscari (Asiatic perennial tufted herb with grasslike evergreen foliage and clusters of dark mauve grapelike flowers; grown as ground cover)
false lily of the valley; Maianthemum canadense (small two-leaved herb of the northern United States and parts of Canada having racemes of small fragrant white flowers)
false lily of the valley; Maianthemum bifolium (small white-flowered plant of western Europe to Japan)
Solomon's-seal (any of several plants of the genus Polygonatum having paired drooping yellowish-green flowers and a thick rootstock with scars shaped like Solomon's seal)
lily (any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers)
agapanthus; lily of the Nile (any of various plants of the genus Agapanthus having umbels of showy blue to purple flowers)
albuca (any of various plants of the genus Albuca having large clusters of pale yellow flowers; South Africa)
colic root; colicroot; crow corn; star grass; unicorn root (any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic)
alliaceous plant (bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odor)
alstroemeria (any of various South American plants of the genus Alstroemeria valued for their handsome umbels of beautiful flowers)
Amianthum muscaetoxicum; Amianthum muscitoxicum; fly poison (all parts of plant are highly toxic; bulb pounded and used as a fly poison; sometimes placed in subfamily Melanthiaceae)
Anthericum liliago; Saint-Bernard's-lily (southern European plant commonly cultivated for its spikes of small starry greenish-white flowers)
amber lily; Anthericum torreyi (plant having basal grasslike leaves and a narrow open cluster of starlike yellowish-orange flowers atop a leafless stalk; southwestern United States; only species of Anthericum growing in North America)
asphodel (any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers)
Bloomeria crocea; golden star; golden stars (California plant having grasslike leaves and showy orange flowers)
brodiaea (any of several plants of the genus Brodiaea having basal grasslike leaves and globose flower heads on leafless stems resembling those of genus Allium)
mariposa; mariposa lily; mariposa tulip (any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals; southwestern United States and Mexico)
fairy lantern; globe lily (any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowers)
cat's-ear (any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears)
Calochortus nuttallii; sego lily (perennial plant having clusters of one to four showy white bell-shaped flowers atop erect unbranched stems; edible bulbs useful in times of scarcity; eastern Montana and western North Dakota south to northern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico)
camas; camash; camass; camosh; quamash (any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America)
dog's-tooth violet; dogtooth; dogtooth violet (perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated)
avalanche lily; Erythronium montanum (perennial herb having large white flowers marked with orange; found near the snow line in the northwestern United States)
Holonyms ("liliaceous plant" is a member of...):
family Liliaceae; Liliaceae; lily family (includes species sometimes divided among the following families: Alliaceae; Aloeaceae; Alstroemeriaceae; Aphyllanthaceae; Asparagaceae; Asphodelaceae; Colchicaceae; Convallariaceae; Hemerocallidaceae; Hostaceae; Hyacinthaceae; Melanthiaceae; Ruscaceae; Smilacaceae; Tecophilaeacea; Xanthorrhoeaceae)
