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SAINT-BERNARD'S-LILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Saint-Bernard's-lily mean? 

SAINT-BERNARD'S-LILY (noun)
  The noun SAINT-BERNARD'S-LILY has 1 sense:

1. southern European plant commonly cultivated for its spikes of small starry greenish-white flowersplay

  Familiarity information: SAINT-BERNARD'S-LILY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SAINT-BERNARD'S-LILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Southern European plant commonly cultivated for its spikes of small starry greenish-white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Anthericum liliago; Saint-Bernard's-lily

Hypernyms ("Saint-Bernard's-lily" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Holonyms ("Saint-Bernard's-lily" is a member of...):

Anthericum; genus Anthericum (genus of Old World (mainly African) perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Asphodelaceae)


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