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Definition of Lent lily
1. Noun. Lily of eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans with broad funnel-shaped white flowers.
Definition of Lent lily
1. Noun. The daffodil. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Lent lily
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lent Lily
Literary usage of Lent lily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"LENTILS, Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus, L. Corrupted, as one might easily imagine,
from the similarity of the name of " Lent-lily" with that of the ..."
2. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"lent lily, or LILIES, contracted to LENTS (even when used of one single flower).
(Cf. next entry, and Britten, p. 303; Prior, p. 135. ..."
3. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1889)
"On the other hand, I have myself, to some extent, imitated both the Lulworth and
the Bicester flowers by crossing the Lent-lily with garden Daffodils. ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"lent lily, or Lilies (from the season of flowering). ... See lent lily.
Leopard's Bane. A name applied by Ger. and in modern books to Doronicum ..."
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