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LEMON LILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lemon lily mean?
• LEMON LILY (noun)
The noun LEMON LILY has 1 sense:
1. a day lily with yellow flowers
Familiarity information: LEMON LILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A day lily with yellow flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Hemerocallis flava; Hemerocallis lilio-asphodelus; lemon lily
Hypernyms ("lemon lily" is a kind of...):
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)
Holonyms ("lemon 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)
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