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dogtooth violet
dogtooth violetn. Any of various plants of the genus Erythronium in the lily family, having leaves with reddish blotches and nodding, solitary flowers on leafless stems. Also called adder's-tongue, fawn lily, trout lily.
[From the whitish, toothlike appearance of its corms .]dogtooth violet n (Plants) a name for various plants of the liliaceous genus Erythronium, esp the North American E. americanum, with yellow nodding flowers, or the European E. dens-canis, with purple flowers. Also called: adders-tongue or fawn lily dog′tooth vi′olet
n. any of several small lilies of the genus Erythronium, having two mottled leaves and a nodding yellow or purplish flower, esp. E. americanum. Also called fawn lily, trout lily. [1620–30] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  dogtooth violet - perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivateddog's-tooth violet, dogtoothliliaceous plant - plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuberErythronium, genus Erythronium - perennial bulbous herbs most of northern United States: dogtooth violet; adder's tongue; trout lily; fawn lilyblonde lilian, Erythronium albidum, white dog's-tooth violet, white dogtooth violet - North American dogtooth having solitary white flowers with yellow centers and blue or pink exteriorsamberbell, Erythronium americanum, trout lily, yellow adder's tongue - eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiorsErythronium dens-canis, European dogtooth - sturdy European dogtooth with rose to mauve flowers; cultivated in many varietiesErythronium californicum, fawn lily - California dogtooth violet with creamy white flowers sometimes yellow-tingedErythronium grandiflorum, glacier lily, snow lily - dogtooth violet of western North America having bright yellow flowers |
dogtooth violet
dogtooth violet, originally a name for the Old World plant Erythronium denscanis, now applied also to several North American species of the same genus of the family Liliaceae (lilylily,
common name for the Liliaceae, a plant family numbering several thousand species of as many as 300 genera, widely distributed over the earth and particularly abundant in warm temperate and tropical regions.
..... Click the link for more information. family). The most common is E. americanum, a lilylike yellow flower of the East and Middle West. Most of the other native species are Western. The names adder's-tongue and trout, fawn, snow, and glacier lily are also used interchangeably for the American species. Dogtooth violets (unrelated to the true violets) are sometimes cultivated as ornamentals. Dogtooth violet is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Liliatae, order Liliopsida, family Liliaceae.Dogtooth Violet (Erythronium denscanis), also dogtooth, a species of bulbous plants. The name derives from the resemblance of the bulb to the canine tooth of a dog. dogtooth violet
Related to dogtooth violet: Erythronium dens-canis, Erythronium americanumSynonyms for dogtooth violetnoun perennial woodland spring-flowering plantSynonyms- dog's-tooth violet
- dogtooth
Related Words- liliaceous plant
- Erythronium
- genus Erythronium
- blonde lilian
- Erythronium albidum
- white dog's-tooth violet
- white dogtooth violet
- amberbell
- Erythronium americanum
- trout lily
- yellow adder's tongue
- Erythronium dens-canis
- European dogtooth
- Erythronium californicum
- fawn lily
- Erythronium grandiflorum
- glacier lily
- snow lily
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