Any plant (or its flower) of the genus Lilium (family Liliaceæ) of bulbous herbs bearing at the top of a tall slender stem large showy flowers of…

The flower of the (white) lily; occasionally the heraldic fleur-de-lis.

More fully martagon lily. Any of certain lilies with strongly reflexed perianth segments (also called Turk's-cap lily); spec. a lily of this…

= fleur-de-lis, n. Also deluce flower.

(a) any of various kinds of lily (genus Lilium) with red flowers; esp. the scarlet Turk's-cap lily, Lilium chalcedonicum, and (North American) the…

any of various lilies or lily-like plants having blue or purple flowers; spec. †(a) the martagon lily, Lilium martagon (obsolete); †(b) Australian…

The martagon, Lilium martagon. Obsolete.

A lily or lily-like plant having orange or yellow flowers. Obsolete. rare.

The Martagon lily; also Turk's-cap lily. American Turk's-cap lily n. Lilium superbum.

(a) (also turn-cap lily), Lilium Martagon; (b) a revolving cowl.

In plant-names: Juno's rose n. the white Lily (Lilium candidum). Juno's tears n. Vervain.

a European lily, Lilium bulbiferum, with orange-red flowers, esp. its var. croceum, the form most often cultivated, which has light orange flowers.

a lily native to eastern North America, Lilium canadense, sometimes cultivated as a garden plant, having orange, red, or yellow nodding flowers…

any of several species of Lilium native to Japan, esp. L. japonicum.

a tall garden lily, Lilium tigrinum, with bell-like orange flowers marked with black or purplish spots; also called tiger-spotted lily.

a Madonna lily (Lilium candidum), as sometimes depicted in pictures of the Annunciation.

Any of several (typically white-flowering) lilies or similar plants, esp. the Bermuda lily, Lilium longiflorum, frequently used as a cut flower for…

a lily having fragrant white flowers streaked with yellow, Lilium auratum, native to Japan but widely cultivated elsewhere.

= Japan lily n. at Japan, n. compounds 1b.

a lily of the eastern Mediterranean, Lilium candidum, long cultivated for its fragrant, pure white flowers and often depicted in pictures of the…

a white-flowering lily, Lilium longiflorum, formerly much cultivated in Bermuda and frequently used as a cut flower for decoration at Easter; esp.…

a name of the Australian liliaceous plant Blandfordia nobilis, with flowers in racemes.

a lily of the western United States, Lilium pardalinum, cultivated for its orange flowers with dark red spots; also called leopard lily.

the American genus Triteleia, N.O. Liliaceæ, having the parts of the flower regularly arranged in threes.

the Siberian Lilium Pomponium, bearing deep-red spotted flowers and edible bulbs.

the Madonna lily, Lilium candidum.

Short for tiger-moth n., tiger-shark n., tiger-snake n., tiger-wolf n. at compounds 2a, etc.

a name used for several spotted lilies, esp. Lilium pardalinum (cf. panther lily n. at panther, n. compounds 2).

= lily, n. 1.

(a) the American Turk's-cap lily, Lilium superbum; (b) the genus Zephyranthes, of Mexico, South America, and the West Indies; (c) the lizard's-tail…

a tall lily, Lilium washingtonianum, that grows in the mountains of the Pacific Coast of North America and bears white flowers.

a yellow-flowered fragrant lily, Lilium kelleyanum, native to the mountains of central and northern California.

the lily Lilium regale, having fragrant, white, trumpet-shaped flowers, discovered in China by E. H. Wilson in 1903 and much cultivated in…

More fully regale lily. = regal lily n. at regal, n.1 adj.compounds.

attributive. Designating plants and animals found in the region of Oregon. (a) a spotted lily, Lilium columbianum, of western North America; (b) any…