FRITILLARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fritillary mean? 

• FRITILLARY (noun)
  The noun FRITILLARY has 2 senses:

1. any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers

2. butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver

  Familiarity information: FRITILLARY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRITILLARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

checkered lily; fritillary

Hypernyms ("fritillary" is a kind of...):

bulbous plant (plant growing from a bulb)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fritillary"):

Fritillaria affinis; Fritillaria lanceolata; Fritillaria mutica; mission bells; rice-grain fritillary (herb of northwestern America having green-and-purple bell-shaped flowers)

black fritillary; Fritillaria biflora; mission bells (herb of southwestern United States having dark purple bell-shaped flowers mottled with green)

Fritillaria agrestis; stink bell (a malodorous California herb with bell-shaped flowers; a common weed in grainfields)

crown imperial; Fritillaria imperialis (Eurasian herb with a cluster of leaves and orange-red bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem)

Fritillaria liliaceae; white fritillary (California herb with white conic or bell-shaped flowers usually tinged with green)

checkered daffodil; Fritillaria meleagris; guinea-hen flower; leper lily; snake's head fritillary (Eurasian checkered lily with pendant flowers usually veined and checkered with purple or maroon on a pale ground and shaped like the bells carried by lepers in medieval times; widely grown as an ornamental)

brown bells; Fritillaria micrantha; Fritillaria parviflora (California herb with brownish-purple or greenish bell-shaped flowers)

adobe lily; Fritillaria pluriflora; pink fritillary (California herb with pinkish purple flowers)

Fritillaria recurva; scarlet fritillary (western United States herb with scarlet and yellow narrow bell-shaped flowers)

Holonyms ("fritillary" is a member of...):

Fritillaria; genus Fritillaria (fritillary)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("fritillary" is a kind of...):

brush-footed butterfly; four-footed butterfly; nymphalid; nymphalid butterfly (medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fritillary"):

silverspot (butterfly with silver spots on the underside of the hind wings)