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单词 easter lily
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Easter lilyn.

Brit. /ˌiːstə ˈlɪli/, U.S. /ˈistər ˌlɪli/
Etymology: < Easter n.1 + lily n.
1.
a. Any of several (typically white-flowering) lilies or similar plants, esp. the Bermuda lily, Lilium longiflorum, frequently used as a cut flower for decoration at Easter.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > lilies
lily971
lily-flower1340
martagon1440
delucea1450
red lily1531
purple lily1578
mountain lily1597
gold lily1629
Turk's cap1672
turn-cap1688
Juno's rose1706
orange lily1731
Canada lily1771
Japan lily1813
tiger-lily1824
Annunciation lily1853
Easter lily1860
golden-rayed lily1865
scarlet martagon1867
Japanese lily1870
Madonna lily1877
Bermuda lily1882
thimble lily1883
panther lily1884
triplet lily1884
turban-lily1884
Mary-lily1893
tiger1901
leopard lily1902
lilium1902
swamp lily1902
Washington lily1911
Shasta lily1915
regal lily1916
regale1920
Oregon lily1925
1860 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 493/1 [He] glanced back at his own Easter lilies and choristers.
1876 Gardener's Monthly May 136/1 The Richardia (Calla) Æthopica, which our people have learned to call ‘Calla Lily’ and ‘Easter Lily’.
1894 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 7 101 Zephyranthes Atamasco,..Easter lily.
1913 W. H. D. Meier School & Home Gardens iii. 18 Any one who has had some degree of success in cultivating bulbs may try the Bermuda lily (Lilium harrisii), generally known as the Easter lily.
1997 M. Wood Bk. Herbal Wisdom 341 Easter Lily (Lilium longiflorum) is native to China and Japan. It was introduced into Europe in 1817, as an ornamental, and is now widely propagated.
2007 R. M. Pyle Sky Time in Gray's River iv. 61 Country kids take home big bunches of soon-to-wilt ‘Easter lilies’ for their moms or grandmas. Trilliums do not respond well to picking.
2008 Central Plains Herald-Leader (Portage la Prairie, Manitoba) 22 Mar. 34 (caption) A potted Easter lily can be planted outdoors once it's done flowering.
b. Chiefly North American. Any of various other spring-flowering plants, esp. the pasque flower (genus Pulsatilla, family Ranunculaceae). Now rare.
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1882 H. Friend Gloss. Devonshire Plant Names 27 Easter Lily is another Devonshire name for Narcissus, as I ascertained personally at Topsham last year.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Easter lily... Daffodil—Narcissus pseudo-narcissus. One of our commonest spring flowers.
1901 Bull. Illinois State Lab. Nat. Hist. 5 115 In portions of the state it [sc. Pulsatilla hirsutissima] is called Easter lily. The flowers open in March or early April.
2008 Independent 28 Feb. (Extra section) 11/5 Everyone who loves wild flowers should try to see the pasqueflower at least once. This is our ‘Easter lily’.
2. A white lily flower (or a badge depicting this), worn to commemorate Irish Republicans who were killed during the Easter Rising (Easter Rising n. 2), and later those killed during subsequent periods of conflict.
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols > plants
rose of Sharon1626
Sharon's rose1640
royal oak1759
Flanders poppy1918
palm1918
Easter lily1926
1926 Evening Herald (Dublin) 10 Nov. 3 Wear an Easter Lily for those who died fighting British Imperialism.
1949 Chicago Tribune 18 Apr. 2/3 Wearing Easter lily badges..they sang Eire's national anthem and old Irish folk-songs beneath banners displaying the slogan ‘Ireland United—No Partition’.
1978 F. Burton Politics of Legitimacy 188 The fact that the Provisional IRA Easter Lilies were pinned to their supporters' clothes whereas the Officials had theirs stuck on.
1997 D. McFerran IRA Man iii. 46 There were maybe fourscore more of us, all true republicans with paper Easter lilies and green ribbons pinned to our coats.
2007 Independent 2 Apr. 30/6 Just as we respect the British people's right to wear the poppy in memory of those killed fighting for Britain..all we ask is respect for Irish republicans to remember our dead also, by wearing the Easter lily.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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