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CLINTON'S LILY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries
Synonyms:
Clinton's lily; clintonia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Clinton's lily" is a kind of...):
liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Clinton's lily"):
Andrew's clintonia; Clintonia andrewsiana; red Clintonia (plant with nearly leafless stalk topped by a cluster of red or reddish lavender flowers; California to Oregon)
Clintonia borealis; heal all; yellow clintonia (common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits)
bride's bonnet; Clintonia uniflora; queen's cup (plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks; Alaska to California and east to Oregon and Montana)
Holonyms ("Clinton's lily" is a member of...):
genus Clintonia (sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae)
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