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Definition of Lily of the valley

1. Noun. Low-growing perennial plant having usually two large oblong lanceolate leaves and a raceme of small fragrant nodding bell-shaped flowers followed by scarlet berries.

Definition of Lily of the valley

1. Noun. (alternative capitalization of lily of the valley) ¹

2. Noun. A flowering plant, ''Convallaria majalis'', with richly fragrant pendant bells. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Lily of the valley

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1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY FAMILY. Scapose or leafy-stemmed herbs, with simple or branched rootstocks, never with bulbs or corms. Flowers solitary, racemose ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"THE lily of the valley : bud, that in meek beauty so dost lean Thy cloistered cheek as pale as moonlight snow, ,ou seem'st beneath thy huge high leaf of ..."

3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"F. muguet, a lily of the valley, similarly named from its scent ; the same s is represented by r in the dialectal F. ..."

4. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1871)
"The flowers of the narcissus, hyacinth, mignonette, heliotrope, lily of the valley, etc., develop ozone in closed vessels. Flowers destitute of perfume do ..."

5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1871)
"The flowers of the narcissus, hyacinth, mignonette, heliotrope, lily of the valley, etc., develop ozone in closed vessels. Flowers destitute of perfume do ..."

6. Geographic Influences in Old Testament Masterpieces by Laura Hulda Wild (1915)
"The lily of the valley mentioned so many times in the Song was probably the anemone, the most abundant and conspicuous flower to be found in Palestine. ..."

7. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1913)
"THE lily of the valley Good hunting!-aye, good hunt- SWEETEST of the flowers a.bloom. Wherever the north winds Jn the fragrant vernal days ln& ing But what ..."

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