lily

A1 Topic:Plants & Agriculture

US /ˈlɪli/ UK /ˈlɪli/ See IPA manual

Minimal pairs

Sounds like leery /l/ vs /r/

Freq #2479

Meanings

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noun
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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Word family

Forms lilieslilybulbs

Derived forms daylilyholly-lilyliliedlilioidlily-fraillily-handedlily-liveredlily-liveredlylily-of-the-valleylily-whitelilylikelilypond

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Phrases (1)

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arum lily
a cultivated plant with a large white flower-like sheath surrounding a yellow spike

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Etymology

From Middle English lilie, from Old English lilie, from Latin līlia, plural of līlium, from Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion). See there for more.

lilie Old English līlia Latin λείριον Ancient Greek

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Topics

Plants & Agriculture

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