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Meanings
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A tall garden flower with large, showy, often trumpet-shaped blooms.
She arranged white lilies in a vase on the table.
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Forms
lilieslilybulbs
Derived forms
daylilyholly-lilyliliedlilioidlily-fraillily-handedlily-liveredlily-liveredlylily-of-the-valleylily-whitelilylikelilypond
Etymology
From Middle English lilie, from Old English lilie, from Latin līlia, plural of līlium, from Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion). See there for more.
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