Толковый словарь английского языка - lily
Lily
lily
I. noun (plural lilies) Etymology: Middle English lilie, from Old English, from Latin lilium Date: before 12th century any of a genus (Lilium of the family Liliaceae, the ~ family) of erect perennial leafy-stemmed bulbous herbs that are native to the temperate northern hemisphere and are widely cultivated for their showy flowers, any of various plants with showy flowers: as, a scarlet anemone (Anemone coronaria) of the Mediterranean region, water ~ , calla ~ , fleur-de-lis 2, II. adjective Date: 15th century resembling a ~ in fairness, purity, or fragility
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n. (pl. -ies) 1 a any bulbous plant of the genus Lilium with large trumpet-shaped often spotted flowers on a tall slender stem, e.g. the madonna lily and tiger lily. b any of several other plants of the family Liliaceae with similar flowers, e.g. the African lily. c the water lily. 2 a person or thing of special whiteness or purity. 3 a heraldic fleur-de-lis. 4 (attrib.) a delicately white (a lily hand). b pallid. Phrases and idioms lily-livered cowardly. lily of the valley any liliaceous plant of the genus Convallaria, with oval leaves in pairs and racemes of white bell-shaped fragrant flowers. lily-pad a floating leaf of a water lily. lily-white 1 as white as a lily. 2 faultless. Derivatives lilied adj. Etymology: OE lilie f. L lilium prob. f. Gk leirion ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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