lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: lilies
form: lilly
Etymology: From Middle English lilie, from Old English lilie, from Latin līlia, plural of līlium, from Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion). See there for more.
Senses: examples: text: The engagement photos were set in a leafy bower festooned with pink and white roses, anemones, lilies and delphinium, like something straight out of an enchanted garden.
ref: 2025 August 27, Vanessa Friedman, “The Ralph Lauren Look of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement Photos”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2025:
glosses: Any of several flowers in the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae, which includes a great many ornamental species.
glosses: Any of several species of herbaceous flower which may or may not resemble the genus Lilium in some way, and which are not closely related to it or each other.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The flower used as a heraldic charge; also commonly used to describe the fleur-de-lis.
examples: text: But sailing further, it veers its lily to the west.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
glosses: The end of a compass needle that should point north, traditionally often ornamented with the figure of a lily or fleur-de-lis.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A royal spade in auction bridge.
topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The thirtieth Lenormand card, representing calmness and maturity.
Derived terms: adobe lily
African lily
Amazon lily
annunciation lily
arum lily
Atamasco lily
atamasco lily
Atamosco lily
avalanche lily
Aztec lily
Barbados lily
bead lily
belladonna lily
Benguet lily
Bermuda lily
blackberry lily
blood lily
Bolander's lily
Brisbane lily
bullhead lily
bush lily
butterfly lily
calla lily
Canada lily
candelabra lily
Catesby's lily
Christmas lily
cobra lily
cow lily
Darling lily
day lily
daylily
desert lily
Easter lily
Egyptian water-lily
fairy lily
false lily of the valley
fawn lily
feathery false lily of the valley
fire lily
flame lily
fragrant water lily
gild the lily
glacier lily
glory lily
goldband lily
Guernsey lily
Humboldt's lily
Ifafa lily
impala lily
Inca lily
Jacobean lily
Jersey lily
Josephine's lily
kaffir lily
lemon lily
Lenten lily
Lent lily
leopard lily
lilied
lilioid
lily crucifix
lily foot
lily-frail
lily-handed
lily iron
lilylike
lily-livered
lily of the field
lily of the Incas
lily of the Nile
lily of the valley
lily-of-the-valley
lily pad
lilypond
lilyturf
lily-white
lilywort
Macquarie lily
Madonna lily
Mariposa lily
mariposa lily
May lily
moon-lily
Moreton Bay lily
Murray lily
nodding blue lily
orange lily
palm lily
panther lily
peace lily
Peruvian lily
Philadelphia lily
pineapple lily
piss lily
plantain lily
pond lily
pondlily
prairie lily
rain lily
red spider lily
resurrection lily
rock lily
rush lily
sand lily
Scarborough lily
scarlet lily beetle
sea lily
slime lily
spear lily
spider lily
star lily
stinking corpse lily
stone-lily
straw lily
superb lily
surprise lily
swamp lily
sword lily
tiger lily
tiger-lily
torch lily
trout lily
Turk's cap lily
water lily
water-lily
western red lily
white water lily
wild lily-of-the-valley
wood lily
yellow pond lily
yellow pond-lily
zephyr lily