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Definition of Coast lily
1. Noun. Orange-flowered lily of Pacific coast of United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coast Lily
Literary usage of Coast lily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"coast lily. Lilium maritimum, Kell. Lily Family. Bulb. ... The little coast lily
is found most abundantly in the black peat bogs of Mendocino County, ..."
2. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"coast lily. Steins 1 to 4 ft. high with alternate "r rarely whorled leaves; bulb
rhizomatous; leaves narrowly oblanceolate or linear, 1 to 5 in. long and 3 ..."
3. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In which the Most by John Sims (1818)
"... (the Cape-coast lily of our Nurserymen) not yet figured in the Botanical
Magazine ; and A. dis- ticha, No. ..."
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