DAY LILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does day lily mean? 

• DAY LILY (noun)
  The noun DAY LILY has 2 senses:

1. any of numerous perennials having mounds of sumptuous broad ribbed leaves and clusters of white, blue, or lilac flowers; used as ground cover

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

  Familiarity information: DAY LILY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAY LILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous perennials having mounds of sumptuous broad ribbed leaves and clusters of white, blue, or lilac flowers; used as ground cover

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

day lily; plantain lily

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

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

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

Funka; genus Funka; genus Hosta; Hosta (robust east Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers: plantain lilies; sometimes placed in family Hostaceae)

Sense 2

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

day lily; daylily

Hypernyms ("day 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 "day lily"):

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

Holonyms ("day lily" 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)