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MARIPOSA LILY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals; southwestern United States and Mexico
Synonyms:
mariposa; mariposa lily; mariposa tulip
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mariposa 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 "mariposa lily"):
Calochortus elegans; elegant cat's ears; star tulip (small plant with slender bent stems bearing branched clusters of a few white star-shaped flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears; southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon to Montana)
Calochortus kennedyi; desert mariposa tulip (mariposa with clusters of bell-shaped vermilion or orange or yellow flowers atop short stems; southern California to Arizona and Mexico)
Calochortus luteus; yellow mariposa tulip (mariposa having clusters of a few large deep yellow bell-shaped flowers atop slender stems; California coastal ranges)
Calochortus macrocarpus; sagebrush mariposa tulip (mariposa having loose clusters of one to three handsome lilac flowers resembling umbels atop stout erect stems; arid northwestern North America east of Cascade Mountains from southern British Columbia to northern California)
Holonyms ("mariposa lily" is a member of...):
Calochortus; genus Calochortus (large genus of western North American leafy-stemmed bulbous herbs)
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