lily family

American  

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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Example Sentences

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

Asparagus is a member of the lily family, after all.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the ?etals.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah