noun
1. lily of eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans with broad funnel-shaped white flowers
• Syn: ↑Madonna lily, ↑Annunciation lily, ↑Lent lily, ↑Lilium candidum
• Hypernyms: ↑lily
2. white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians
• Syn: ↑lotus, ↑white lotus, ↑Egyptian water lily, ↑Nymphaea lotus
• Hypernyms: ↑water lily
• Member Holonyms: ↑Nymphaea, ↑genus Nymphaea
Useful english dictionary. 2012.