of, relating to, or belonging to the Liliaceae, a family of plants having showy flowers and a bulb or bulblike organ: includes the lily, tulip, and bluebell
Word origin
C18: from Late Latin līliāceus, from līlium lily
Examples of 'liliaceous' in a sentence
liliaceous
An unidentified sterile liliaceous plant and three possible relatives were studied karyotypically and anatomically.
J. J. Spies, D. S. Hardy 1983, 'A karyotypic and anatomical study of an unidentified liliaceous plant', Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservationhttps://abcjournal.org/index.php/abc/article/view/1161. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
I have noticed the same fact with several liliaceous plants, which nevertheless grew vigorously.
Charles Darwin The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. 2 (1868). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)