fritillaryn.
/frᵻˈtɪl(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈfrɪd(ə)lˌɛri/ 1. Any plant of the genus Fritillaria, esp. F. Meleagris (see Fritillaria n.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > fritillary
Fritillaria1578
crown imperial1595
chequered daffodil1597
guinea-hen flower1597
Persian lily1597
fritillary1633
imperial crown1664
drooping tulip1759
snake's head1859
snake-head1884
snake's-head lily1899
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) i. 151 In English we may call it Turky-hen or Ginny-hen Floure, and also Checquered Daffodill, and Fritillarie, according to the Latine.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 74 Fritillary.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 74/1 The sullen Lady..some call it the black Fritillary.
1767 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (1803) 47 Fritillaries, crown imperials, or any other kind of bulbous flower-roots.
1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 138 The chequered fritillary or the tinted wood anemone.
1866 M. Arnold Thyrsis in Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 451 I know what white, what purple fritillaries The grassy harvest of the river-fields, Above by Ensham, down by Sandford, yields.
2. A name for several species of butterfly, e.g. the Silver-washed Fritillary ( Argynnis paphia) and the Queen of Spain Fritillary ( A. lathonia).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Nymphalidae > subfamily Ithomiinae > genus Argynnis > member of (fritillary)
turkey-egg1718
fritillary1857
high brown1869
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago III. 132–3 The ‘white admirals’ and silver washed ‘fritillaries’ flit round every bramble bed.
1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell xxx Off dashed Bob after a Queen of Spain fritillary.
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