Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See day lily.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of monocotyledonous plants, of the natural order Liliaceæ, tribe Hemerocalleæ, chiefly distinguished by its erect flowers, and by having the tube of the funnelshaped perianth shorter than the spreading lobes, and the 6 stamens inserted in the throat of the tube. The genus embraces 5 species of perennial herbs, natives of central Europe and temperate Asia, with large erect flowers in a panicle at the summit of the leafless scape, and long, narrow, radical leaves. H. fulva, with tawny-red flowers, is the common day-lily of the gardens.
- n. A plant of this genus.
Wiktionary
- n. botany Any member of the genus Hemerocallis of daylilies.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
WordNet 3.0
- n. east Asian rhizomatous clump-forming perennial herbs having flowers on long leafless stalks; cosmopolitan in cultivation: day lilies; sometimes placed in subfamily Hemerocallidaceae
Etymologies
- From the genus name. (Wiktionary)
- New Latin, from Greek hēmerokalles, a kind of lily : hēmera, day + kallos, beauty. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She smiled her way through "facetious" and didn't hesitate as she worked her way through "hemerocallis" - another word for a day lily.”
“At work, we are an “Open Garden” this weekend for the mid-Atlantic daylily convention, so there should be some hemerocallis-heads wandering around.”
“New last year from nearby Champion Daylilies in Knoxville,hemerocallis ‘ Bela Lugosi’, was added to the just begun Black Garden area, renamed from the lavender field.”
“The asiatic lilies will lead the procession of trumpet shaped flowers, followed by the daylilies, hemerocallis.”
“Shown above is the roadside daylily, hemerocallis fulva, in the midst of feather reed grass, calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerester’.”
“Strong and stout, this daylily, hemerocallis ‘Matthew Martin’ from another local daylily farm, Sunshine Hollow, has very thick petals with a slight ruffled edge.”
“The hemerocallis, crocosmias and heleniums are 'on fire' at the moment.”
“They started out about three feet from each other, but the hemerocallis spreads so quickly that now they form a mass that is almost impossible to break apart.”
“Another very poor combination that is in my garden, much to my sorrow, is hemerocallis and siberica iris.”
“Helenium autumnale helianthus species hellebore for insects hemerocallis species hemlock”
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