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Lily and Lilly Definitions

Lily

Any of various plants of the genus Lilium, having variously colored, often trumpet-shaped flowers.

Lilly

Obsolete form of lily

Lily

Any of various similar or related plants, such as the daylily or the water lily.

Lily

The flower of any of these plants.

Lily

Any of several flowers in the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae, which includes a great many ornamental species.
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Lily

Any of several species of herbaceous flower which may or may not resemble the genus Lilium in some way, and which are not closely related to it or each other.

Lily

(heraldry) The flower used as a heraldic charge; also commonly used to describe the fleur-de-lis.

Lily

The end of a compass needle that should point north, traditionally often ornamented with the figure of a lily or fleur-de-lis.

Lily

A royal spade in auction bridge.

Lily

(cartomancy) The thirtieth Lenormand card, representing calmness and maturity.
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Lily

White (as a racial epithet).

Lily

A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary.

Lily

A name given to handsome flowering plants of several genera, having some resemblance in color or form to a true lily, as Pancratium, Crinum, Amaryllis, Nerine, etc.

Lily

That end of a compass needle which should point to the north; - so called as often ornamented with the figure of a lily or fleur-de-lis.
But sailing further, it veers its lily to the west.

Lily

A royal spade; - usually in pl. See Royal spade, below.

Lily

Any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers

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