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Lilium martagon

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)



   {Lily pad}, the large floating leaf of the water lily. [U.
      S.] --Lowell.

   {Tiger lily} (Bot.), {Lilium tigrinum}, the sepals of which
      are blotched with black.

   {Turk's-cap lily} (Bot.), {Lilium Martagon}, a red lily with
      recurved sepals; also, the similar American lily, {L.
      superbum}.

   {Water lily} (Bot.), the {Nymph[ae]a}, a plant with floating
      roundish leaves, and large flowers having many petals,
      usually white, but sometimes pink, red, blue, or yellow.
      [See Illust. of {Nymph[ae]a}.]

Martagon \Mar"ta*gon\, n. [Cf. F. & Sp. martagon, It.
   martagone.] (Bot.)
   A lily ({Lilium Martagon}) with purplish red flowers, found
   in Europe and Asia.

Source : WordNet®

Lilium martagon
     n : lily with small dull purple flowers of northwestern Europe
         and northwestern Asia [syn: {Turk's-cap}, {martagon}]
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