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BLOOD LILY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any of various deciduous or evergreen herbs of the genus Haemanthus; South Africa and Namibia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("blood lily" is a kind of...):
bulbous plant (plant growing from a bulb)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blood lily"):
Cape tulip; Haemanthus coccineus (spectacular plant having large prostrate leaves barred in reddish-purple and flowers with a clump of long yellow stamens in a coral-red cup of fleshy bracts; South Africa)
Holonyms ("blood lily" is a member of...):
genus Haemanthus; Haemanthus (genus of African deciduous or evergreen bulbous herbs: blood lilies)
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