单词 | meadow lily |
释义 | > as lemmasmeadow lily meadow lily n. North American either of two North American lilies, the Canada lily, Lilium canadense, with nodding yellow flowers, and (now rare) the wood lily, L. pennsylvanicum, with upright red flowers. ΚΠ 1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. Maine I. 125 [We have] two varieties of meadow-lilies, the upright has a flower of a red colour, freckled with black, in the other, the pensile is yellow freckled. 1894 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 7 102 Lilium Canadense,..meadow lily, nodding lily. 1946 E. Hodgins Mr. Blandings builds his Dream House (1947) viii. 104 When the bluebells and the columbine faded, the meadow lilies and the wild geranium took up the torch... August was well along. 1979 W. A. Niering & N. C. Olmstead Audubon Soc. Field Guide N. Amer. Wildflowers, Eastern Region 600 Canada Lily; Meadow Lily; Wild Yellow Lily. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 450 Meadow-rue has an unusually succinct Gaelic name: ru. < as lemmas |
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