day lily |
any of several wild and cultivated varieties of lily whose multiple, trumpet-shaped flowers each bloom for a single day. |
Easter lily |
any of various white-flowered lilies that are artificially brought into bloom for Easter Sunday, used esp. to decorate the altars of Christian churches on Easter. |
lily of the valley |
a widely cultivated perennial of the lily family having small, white, very fragrant bell-shaped flowers. |
lily pad |
the large, flat, floating leaf of a water lily. |
lily-livered |
lacking courage; meek. |
lily-white |
white as a lily. [4 definitions] |
mariposa lily |
a lilylike plant found in Mexico and the western United States. [2 definitions] |
plantain lily |
any of several perennial lilies having broad, strongly ribbed leaves and bearing clusters of white, blue, or purple flowers. |
pond lily |
see "water lily." |
sand lily |
a small, stemless perennial with grasslike leaves and white, fragrant, star-shaped flowers. |
sea lily |
a deep-water marine crinoid with a flowerlike body on a long stalk by which it is attached to the ocean floor. |
sego lily |
a lily native to the western United States that bears a bell-shaped flower and has an edible root. |
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. |
Turk's-cap lily |
any of various, usu. orange-flowered lilies having strongly recurved petals and sepals, resembling a rolled turban. |
water lily |
any of several aquatic plants that have large flat floating leaves and bear showy flowers in various colors. [2 definitions] |