a mariposa lily (genus Calochortus); cf. butterfly lily n.

any of several perennial bulbous plants belonging to the North American genus Calochortus (family Liliaceae), having variously coloured flowers…

Applied, usually with defining word, to species of this, and various plants more or less resembling it, or their flowers; also to the flowers of the…

In full mariposa lily, mariposa tulip. Any plant of the genus Calochortus (family Liliaceae), the members of which have brightly coloured flowers…

(a) a mariposa lily (genus Calochortus); = butterfly tulip n.; (b) a ginger lily (genus Hedychium, family Zingiberaceae); esp. H. coronarium.

a mariposa lily (genus Calochortus); spec. C. albus, which has nodding white flowers.