wood lily
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of wood lily
1350–1400; Middle English: meadow saffron
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
In such places, my spirit lifted to the sight of the drifts of white clover or the clouds of purple vetch, with here and there the flaming cup of a wood lily.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2017
Each spiderwort, evening primrose or wood lily is a stylized representation of growth and decay.
From Time Magazine Archive
In such places my spirit lifted to the sight of the drifts of white clover or the clouds of purple vetch with here and there the flaming cup of a wood lily.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
When he sculpted it to a point, such a brush would let him paint the pinfeathers of a young meadowlark or the petals of a wood lily.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
I know you are no more of her class and type than the wood lily is like the rank and poisonous marsh weed!
From God's Good Man by Corelli, Marie
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
