PREFERRED TERM
Lily
DEFINITION
- n. A term from the Old English "lilie" and the Latin "lilium". It refers to the representation of any plant (or its flower) of the genus Lilium (family Liliaceæ) of bulbous herbs bearing at the top of a tall slender stem large showy flowers of white, reddish, or purplish colour, often marked with dark spots on the inside.
BROADER CONCEPT
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
BELONGS TO GROUP
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Lis
French
Giglio (iconografia)
Italian
Lirio
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/906
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