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单词 queen lily
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queen lily
queen lily n. (a) (chiefly poetic) a lily (obsolete); (b) any of the Central and South American bulbous plants constituting the genus Phaedranassa (family Amaryllidaceae), often grown as ornamentals for their umbels of funnel-shaped pink or crimson flowers.
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1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 12 Queen Lilies! and ye painted Populace! Who dwell in Fields, and lead ambrosial lives.
1786 J. West Misc. Poetry 9 Boast not, queen lily, thy attire of snow; Nor thou, vermillion rose.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxi. ix, in Maud & Other Poems 71 In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls, Queen lily and rose in one.
1887 G. Nicholson Illustr. Dict. Gardening III. 89/1 Phædranassa (from phaidros, gay, and anassa, a queen; alluding to the beauty of the flowers). Queen Lily... Ord. Amaryllideæ.
1902 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening (ed. 5) 284 Phædranassa (Queen Lily)... Warm & cool greenhouse flowering bulbous plants.
2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 Apr. 14/1 Lachenalias are fast compared with the queen lily, Phaedranassa dubia, which takes a full year of daily watering before bothering to germinate.
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