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| rocambole |
a European onion that resembles a lily and bears a cluster of small bulbs used like garlic. |
| sabadilla |
a tropical American plant of the lily family, with poisonous seeds that are used in insecticides. |
| sea onion |
a Mediterranean plant of the lily family. [1/2 definitions] |
| sego |
see "sego lily." |
| sego lily |
a lily native to the western United States that bears a bell-shaped flower and has an edible root. |
| shallot |
an onionlike plant of the lily family that forms flavorful bulbs eaten as a vegetable or used in cooking. [1/2 definitions] |
| spider plant |
a plant of the lily family, with long, narrow, sometimes white-streaked leaves, commonly grown as a houseplant. |
| tiger lily |
an Asian lily that has large orange petals spotted with black and curved back toward the stem, or any of various similarly colored lilies. |
| trillium |
a perennial of the lily family that has a whorl of three leaves from which a single three-petaled flower blooms. |
| water nymph |
a water lily. [1/2 definitions] |
| white-livered |
having little or no courage; cowardly; lily-livered. |
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