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FAIRY LANTERN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fairy lantern mean?
• FAIRY LANTERN (noun)
The noun FAIRY LANTERN has 1 sense:
1. any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowers
Familiarity information: FAIRY LANTERN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
fairy lantern; globe lily
Hypernyms ("fairy lantern" 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 "fairy lantern"):
Calochortus albus; white fairy lantern; white globe lily (globe lily having open branched clusters of egg-shaped white flowers; southern California)
Calochortus amabilis; golden fairy lantern; yellow globe lily (globe lily having open branched clusters of clear yellow egg-shaped flowers; northern California)
Calochortus amoenus; rose globe lily (globe lily with deep rose-pink or purple egg-shaped flowers on flexuous stems; western slopes of Sierra Nevada in San Joaquin Valley)
Holonyms ("fairy lantern" is a member of...):
Calochortus; genus Calochortus (large genus of western North American leafy-stemmed bulbous herbs)
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