swamp lily
English
Noun
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- Any of various species of lily growing in wet habitats.
- 1803, Benjamin Smith Barton, Elements of Botany, Philadelphia: for the author, pp. 32-33,[1]
- Saururus (called in the United States, Swamp-lilies) is arranged by Linnæus in his second natural order […] Saururus […] is a very mild plant, and is often used in the shape of poultices, by the people of the United-States!
- 1924, Lilian Garis, Nancy Brandon, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 16,[2]
- Sympathetic ferns stretched their soft green fronds along the sides of the naked wood, as if they wanted to supply the fallen tree with some of the verdure of which it had been cruelly bereft, and even a gay, flowering swamp lily, that wonderful flaming flower that holds its chalice above all other wood blooms, bent just a little toward the one branch of that tree that still clung to the parent trunk.
- 2009, Alice Munro, “Fiction” in Too Much Happiness, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart,[3]
- This is later on, when the days have lengthened and the dandles of swamp lilies flame in the ditches.
- Some species of Lua error in Module:parameters at line 858: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., including Lua error in Module:parameters at line 858: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. (southern swamplily), Lua error in Module:parameters at line 858: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., Lua error in Module:parameters at line 858: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. (also river lily or mangrove lily)
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 858: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. (also Turk's cap lily(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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- Saururus spp. (lizard's tail)
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 858: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. (rain lily, Atamasco lily)
- 1803, Benjamin Smith Barton, Elements of Botany, Philadelphia: for the author, pp. 32-33,[1]
Derived terms
- hardy swamp lily (also hardy swamplily, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 858: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Peruvian swamp lily (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 858: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
References
swamp lily on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “swamp lily”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “swamp lily”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
