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BLACKBERRY-LILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blackberry-lily mean?
• BLACKBERRY-LILY (noun)
The noun BLACKBERRY-LILY has 1 sense:
1. garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry
Familiarity information: BLACKBERRY-LILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Belamcanda chinensis; blackberry-lily; leopard lily
Hypernyms ("blackberry-lily" is a kind of...):
iridaceous plant (any bulbous plant of the family Iridaceae)
Holonyms ("blackberry-lily" is a member of...):
Belamcanda; genus Belamcanda (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae)
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