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BLOOD LILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blood lily mean? 

BLOOD LILY (noun)
  The noun BLOOD LILY has 1 sense:

1. any of various deciduous or evergreen herbs of the genus Haemanthus; South Africa and Namibiaplay

  Familiarity information: BLOOD LILY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLOOD LILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various deciduous or evergreen herbs of the genus Haemanthus; South Africa and Namibia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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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