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AVALANCHE LILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does avalanche lily mean?
• AVALANCHE LILY (noun)
The noun AVALANCHE LILY has 1 sense:
1. perennial herb having large white flowers marked with orange; found near the snow line in the northwestern United States
Familiarity information: AVALANCHE LILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial herb having large white flowers marked with orange; found near the snow line in the northwestern United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
avalanche lily; Erythronium montanum
Hypernyms ("avalanche lily" is a kind of...):
liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)
Holonyms ("avalanche lily" is a member of...):
Erythronium; genus Erythronium (perennial bulbous herbs most of northern United States: dogtooth violet; adder's tongue; trout lily; fawn lily)
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