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BLACKBERRY-LILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blackberry-lily mean? 

BLACKBERRY-LILY (noun)
  The noun BLACKBERRY-LILY has 1 sense:

1. garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberryplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BLACKBERRY-LILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Belamcanda chinensis; blackberry-lily; leopard lily

Hypernyms ("blackberry-lily" is a kind of...):

iridaceous plant (any bulbous plant of the family Iridaceae)

Holonyms ("blackberry-lily" is a member of...):

Belamcanda; genus Belamcanda (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae)


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