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Definition of Fritillary
1. Noun. Any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers.
Group relationships: Fritillaria, Genus Fritillaria
Specialized synonyms: Fritillaria Affinis, Fritillaria Lanceolata, Fritillaria Mutica, Mission Bells, Rice-grain Fritillary, Black Fritillary, Fritillaria Biflora, Mission Bells, Fritillaria Agrestis, Stink Bell, Crown Imperial, Fritillaria Imperialis, Fritillaria Liliaceae, White Fritillary, Checkered Daffodil, Fritillaria Meleagris, Guinea-hen Flower, Leper Lily, Snake's Head Fritillary, Brown Bells, Fritillaria Micrantha, Fritillaria Parviflora, Adobe Lily, Fritillaria Pluriflora, Pink Fritillary, Fritillaria Recurva, Scarlet Fritillary
Generic synonyms: Bulbous Plant
2. Noun. Butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver.
Specialized synonyms: Silverspot
Definition of Fritillary
1. n. A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria.
Definition of Fritillary
1. Noun. Any of several bulbous perennial plants, of the genus ''Fritillaria'', having flowers with a spotted or chequered pattern. ¹
2. Noun. Any of several butterflies, of the family ''Nymphalidae'', having wings with black or silvery spots. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Fritillary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Naturalist's Library edited by William Jardine (1835)
"DARK GREEN fritillary. Argynnis Aglaia. PLATE XV. Fio. 1. Pap. Aglaia, Linn. ...
—Dark Green fritillary, Harris. VERY like the preceding on the upper side, ..."
2. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1877)
"The variegated fritillary, A name proposed by Gosse. 26. ... The silver-bordered
fritillary. Called by Gosse the pearl-bordered fritillary, but the spots ..."
3. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"Ind. fritillary with a pale- green Flower, variegated with a deep Purple. ...
The great- ett fritillary, of a worn out purple Colour, commonly called the ..."
4. Every-day Butterflies: A Group of Biographies by Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1899)
"Three species occur in the east, and the largest of them, and the one most commonly
seen except in the north, is the Great Spangled fritillary. ..."
5. British Butterflies by James Duncan, Georges Cuvier (1860)
"Euphrasia, Lewin, pL 13—Small pearl-bordered fritillary, Haworth. RATHER smaller
than the preceding, which it greatly resembles on the surface: the ..."
6. How to Know the Butterflies: A Manual of the Butterflies of the Eastern by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1904)
"... and occurs throughout the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, but is
very rare in the northern half of this region. THE DIANA fritillary ..."
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