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LILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lily" 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 "lily"):
Lilium auratum; mountain lily (Japanese lily with golden rays)
Canada lily; Lilium canadense; meadow lily; wild meadow lily; wild yellow lily (common lily of the eastern United States having nodding yellow or reddish flowers spotted with brown)
Annunciation lily; Lent lily; Lilium candidum; Madonna lily; white lily (lily of eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans with broad funnel-shaped white flowers)
leopard lily; Lilium catesbaei; pine lily; tiger lily (lily of southeastern United States having cup-shaped flowers with deep yellow to scarlet recurved petals)
Columbia tiger lily; Lilium columbianum; Oregon lily (lily of western North America with showy orange-red purple-spotted flowers)
devil lily; kentan; Lilium lancifolium; tiger lily (east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals)
Bermuda lily; Easter lily; Lilium longiflorum; white trumpet lily (tall lily have large white trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom in the spring)
coast lily; Lilium maritinum (orange-flowered lily of Pacific coast of United States)
Lilium martagon; martagon; Turk's-cap (lily with small dull purple flowers of northwestern Europe and northwestern Asia)
Lilium michiganense; Michigan lily (lily of central North America having recurved orange-red flowers with deep crimson spots)
leopard lily; Lilium pardalinum; panther lily (lily of western United States having orange-red to crimson maroon-spotted flowers)
Lilium philadelphicum; wood lily (lily of eastern North America having orange to orange-red purple-spotted flowers)
Lilium superbum; Turk's-cap; Turk's cap-lily (lily of the eastern United States with orange to red maroon-spotted flowers)
Holonyms ("lily" is a member of...):
genus Lilium; Lilium (type genus of Liliaceae)
Context examples:
I read in Pilgrim's Progress today how, after many troubles, Christian and Hopeful came to a pleasant green meadow where lilies bloomed all year round, and there they rested happily, as we do now, before they went on to their journey's end, answered Beth, adding, as she slipped out of her father's arms and went to the instrument, It's singing time now, and I want to be in my old place.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He took me into the dining-room, surveyed me keenly all over, pronounced me fair as a lily, and not only the pride of his life, but the desire of his eyes, and then telling me he would give me but ten minutes to eat some breakfast, he rang the bell.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The young squire was leaning forward, gazing at the stirring and martial scene, when he heard a short, quick gasp at his shoulder, and there was the Lady Maude, with her hand to her heart, leaning up against the wall, slender and fair, like a half-plucked lily.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with honeysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells in graceful wreaths all over it, tall white lilies, delicate ferns, and as many brilliant, picturesque plants as would consent to blossom there.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Its garden, too, glowed with flowers: hollyhocks had sprung up tall as trees, lilies had opened, tulips and roses were in bloom; the borders of the little beds were gay with pink thrift and crimson double daisies; the sweetbriars gave out, morning and evening, their scent of spice and apples; and these fragrant treasures were all useless for most of the inmates of Lowood, except to furnish now and then a handful of herbs and blossoms to put in a coffin.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Fast spread the tidings from thorpe to thorpe and from castle to castle, that the old game was afoot once more, and the lions and lilies to be in the field with the early spring.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Perfect beauty is a strong expression; but I do not retrace or qualify it: as sweet features as ever the temperate clime of Albion moulded; as pure hues of rose and lily as ever her humid gales and vapoury skies generated and screened, justified, in this instance, the term.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Looking down the room, Alleyne marked that both floor and ceiling were of the richest oak, the latter spanned by twelve arching beams, which were adorned at either end by the lilies and the lions of the royal arms.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
