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