noun
1. lily of eastern North America having orange to orange-red purple-spotted flowers
• Syn: ↑Lilium philadelphicum
• Hypernyms: ↑lily
2. any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower
• Syn: ↑trillium, ↑wake-robin
• Hypernyms: ↑liliaceous plant
• Hyponyms:
↑prairie wake-robin, ↑prairie trillium, ↑Trillium recurvatum, ↑dwarf-white trillium, ↑snow trillium, ↑early wake-robin, ↑purple trillium, ↑red trillium, ↑birthroot, ↑Trillium erectum, ↑toadshade, ↑sessile trillium, ↑Trillium sessile
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Trillium
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nounEtymology: Middle English wode lilie
1.
a. : lily of the valley
c. : a plant of the genus Trillium
2. : a wintergreen (Pyrola minor)
3. : an Australian orchid (Dendrobium speciosum) with creamy fragrant flowers
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a lily, Lilium philadelphicum, of eastern North America, having orange-red flowers.
[1350-1400; ME: meadow saffron]
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wood lily,
= orangecup lily. (Cf. ↑orangecup lily)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.