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

On paper there is no fruit so appealing to raise as the richest relative of the lily family, the banana.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was afraid you were of the lily family, but I see you are a bud of the rose.”

From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Lyford, Philip