WOOD LILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wood lily mean? 

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

1. any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower

2. lily of eastern North America having orange to orange-red purple-spotted flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOOD LILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

trillium; wake-robin; wood lily

Hypernyms ("wood 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 "wood lily"):

prairie trillium; prairie wake-robin; Trillium recurvatum (trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowers)

dwarf-white trillium; early wake-robin; snow trillium (a low perennial white-flowered trillium found in the southeastern United States)

birthroot; purple trillium; red trillium; Trillium erectum (trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth)

red trillium; sessile trillium; toadshade; Trillium sessile (trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor)

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

genus Trillium (deciduous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lily of eastern North America having orange to orange-red purple-spotted flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Lilium philadelphicum; wood lily

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

lily (any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers)