lily family

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noun

1. the 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.

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lily family

However, Colchicum are in the lily family and not a crocus at all.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2021

Tom Croat, a specialist in the lily family at the Missouri Botanic Garden, is probably the most prolific living plant collector, with more than 100,000 specimens to his name.

From Nature ● Apr. 25, 2012

And with the advent of DNA science, many plants have been reclassified; the old lily family is now split into eight or nine families, he said.

From Washington Post

Since last year, farmers in and around the tequila-producing Mexican state of Jalisco have been facing shortages of agave, the spiky-leafed member of the lily family from which the spirit is distilled.

From Time Magazine Archive

It really does belong to the lily family.

From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy