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lily
1[ lil-ee ]
noun
- any scaly-bulbed plant of the genus Lilium, having showy, funnel-shaped or bell-shaped flowers. Compare lily family.
- the flower or the bulb of such a plant.
- any of various related or similar plants or their flowers, as the mariposa lily or the calla lily.
- fleur-de-lis, especially as the symbol of France.
- Bowling. a split in which the five, seven, and ten pins remain standing.
adjective
- white as a lily:
her lily hands.
- delicately fair:
a lily maiden.
- pure; unsullied:
the lily truth.
- pale; fragile; weak.
Lily
2[ lil-e ]
noun
- a female given name.
lily
/ ˈɪɪ /
noun
- any liliaceous perennial plant of the N temperate genus Lilium, such as the Turk's-cap lily and tiger lily, having scaly bulbs and showy typically pendulous flowers
- the bulb or flower of any of these plants
- any of various similar or related plants, such as the water lily, plantain lily, and day lily
Derived Forms
- ˈ-ˌ, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- y· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of lily1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of lily1
Idioms and Phrases
- gild the lily. gild 1( def 4 ).
More idioms and phrases containing lily
see gild the lily .Example Sentences
Then he tried to gild the lily by saying the Great Depression would have never happened if there had been tariffs at the time.
Zion takes cover behind a statue of Buddha in the lily pad pond, and a corpse floats by.
The self-declared "fossil geek" said he came across some unusual-looking fragments which turned out to be pieces of sea lily - an underwater species related to starfish and sea urchins - in a piece of chalk.
Since 2008, he had been the director of the Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, where Monet’s water lily paintings were produced.
It also wears many names — the African desert banana, the crane lily — but formally, it is known as Strelitzia reginae and is one of five species of Strelitzia.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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