WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
lil′y fam′ily,
- Plant Biologythe large plant family Liliaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants growing from bulbs, corms, rhizomes, or tubers, having narrow, parallel-veined, usually basal leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the aloe, asparagus, aspidistra, hyacinth, numerous species of lily, lily of the valley, trillium, and tulip.
'lily family' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Barbados aloe
- Indian cucumber root
- Indian lotus
- aloe
- asparagus
- asphodel
- aspidistra
- autumn crocus
- avalanche lily
- bear grass
- bellwort
- blazing star
- bluebell
- bog asphodel
- bunchflower
- butcher's-broom
- calochortus
- camass
- cat's-ear
- chincherinchee
- chionodoxa
- clintonia
- colchicum
- colicroot
- corn lily
- crown imperial
- death camass
- devil's-bit
- false Solomon's-seal
- false hellebore
- fanwort
- glacier lily
- glory-of-the-snow
- grape hyacinth
- grass tree
- harebell
- herb Paris
- hosta
- hyacinth
- liliaceous
- lily
- liriope
- lotus
- mandarin
- mondo grass
- nerine
- nodding trillium
- nymphaeaceous
- perfoliate bellwort
- plantain lily