Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Eurasian lily (Lilium martagon) usually having pinkish-purple, spotted flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Turk's-cap lily, Lilium Martagon. The bulbs are said to be eaten by the Cossacks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A lily (
Lilium Martagon ) with purplish red flowers, found in Europe and Asia.
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- noun A
Eurasian lily .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lily with small dull purple flowers of northwestern Europe and northwestern Asia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Trumpet lilies are bursting into bloom; the scarlet martagon is at its best; _speciosum_, tiger, and American Turk's cap lilies are yet to follow.
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He led them, between vines and fruit trees and beds of martagon and mirasolus, to the lion-house in his garden.
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Here and there the scarlet martagon (Lilium chalcedonicum), bright blue or yellow gingers; red, orange, yellow, and pure white orchids; pale lobelias, &c.; but they do not mar the general greenness.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
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In the month of July a gorgeous assemblage of martagon lilies take the place of the lupine and trilliums; these splendid lilies vary from orange to the brightest scarlet; various species of sunflowers and
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The red martagon grows abundantly on our plains; the dog's tooth violet, _Erythronium_, with its spotted leaves and bending yellow blossom, delicately dashed with crimson spots within, and marked with fine purple lines on the outer part of the petal, proves a great attraction in our woods, where these plants increase: they form a beautiful bed; the leaves come up singly, one from each separate tuber.
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They are types of martagon lily, with smallish reflexed flowers beautifully held on a stem about 45cm 18in tall.
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The aconites, martagon lilies and leucojums that once thrived have been replaced by mud.
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I send you two martagon roots, and some jonquils; and have added some prints, two enamelled Pictures, and three medals.
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L. martagon is a true turkscap species that seeds itself freely in my garden and even appears in paving cracks. it is a rather muddy purple but
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Nowhere in literature has the virtue of mere innocent gladness been more charmingly imagined than in her morning outbreak of expectancy, half animal glee, half spiritual joy; the “whole sunrise, not to be suppressed” is a limitless splendour, but the reflected beam cast up from the splash of her ewer and dancing on her poor ceiling is the same in kind; in the shrub-house up the hill-side are great exotic blooms, but has not Pippa her one martagon lily, over which she queens it?
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