| 单词 | fire lily |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfire lily fire lily n. (a) any of various lilies with orange or red flowers, esp. Lilium bulbiferum of southern Europe, which has bright orange flowers; (b) any of the bulbous perennial plants of the genus Cyrtanthus (family Amaryllidaceae) of central and southern Africa, which tend to produce their flowers (often red or orange) after bush fires. ΚΠ 1802 A. F. M. Willich Domest. Encycl. IV. Index 466/1 L[ilium] bulbiferum. Fire Lily. 1864 L. Grout Zulu-land xx. 276 One of these which is known to the Dutch as the ‘fire-lily’, and so far as the brightness of its color is concerned, it well deserves its name. 1871 H. B. Stowe Sam Lawson 179 A tall straight fire-lily, black, spotted in its centre..rose like a jet of flame. 1913 Garden 22 Feb. 94/1 Whenever I have come across the glowing Fire Lily growing wild, never a bulbil has it given me to take away and grow. 1966 A. Batten & H. Bokelmann Wild Flowers Eastern Cape 28 Clivia miniata Regel (Fire Lily, Bush Lily). 2004 J. Manning Southern Afr. Wild Flowers 65 Half of the 50 species known from southern Africa occur in the Eastern Cape, including the Giant Fire Lily. < as lemmas |
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