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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Sol′omon's-seal, any one of several species of perennial herbs, of the lily family, genus Polygonatum, with simple stems bearing small greenish flowers: a symbol formed of two triangles interlaced or superposed, forming a six-pointed star.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various