LILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lily mean? 

• LILY (noun)
  The noun LILY has 1 sense:

1. any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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 knew this was true of myself, but hers was such a lily strength that I feared she would break down.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The second, Louisa, was taller and more elegant in figure; with a very pretty face, of that order the French term minois chiffone: both sisters were fair as lilies.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An herbal remedy made from the dried root of Chamaelirium luteum, a lily native to the eastern and southern parts of North America.

(Chamaelirium luteum Root, NCI Thesaurus)

“And it is the dream of my heart that our English pennons shall wave upon the Mount of Olives, and the lions and lilies float over the holy city.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We'll drink the daisies of the field, in compliment to you; and the lilies of the valley that toil not, neither do they spin, in compliment to me—the more shame for me!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her sisters braided up her pretty hair, and the only ornaments she wore were the lilies of the valley, which 'her John' liked best of all the flowers that grew.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Here was adventure, something to do with head and hand, a world to conquer—and straightway from the back of his consciousness rushed the thought, _conquering, to win to her, that lily- pale spirit sitting beside him_.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He went to and fro, as if patrolling the house, and was never out of sight of the room where Lucy lay in her coffin, strewn with the wild garlic flowers, which sent, through the odour of lily and rose, a heavy, overpowering smell into the night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Alleyne, glancing at her, noted that her breath came quick and short, and that her cheeks had blanched to a lily white.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He took it and said tenderly:— "Oh, Madam Mina, I knew that the friend of that poor lily girl must be good, but I had yet to learn—" He finished his speech with a courtly bow.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)