atamasco lily

[ at-uh-mas-koh, at- ]

noun
  1. a plant,Zephyranthes atamasco, of the amaryllis family, of the southeastern U.S., bearing a single white lilylike flower sometimes tinged with purple.

Origin of atamasco lily

1
1620–30, Americanism; earlier attamusco<Virginia Algonquian

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