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belladonna lily

[ bel-uh-don-uh lil-ee ]

belladonna lily

noun

  1. another name for amaryllis
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of belladonna lily1

First recorded in 1725–35
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Example Sentences

A. Belladonna, the Belladonna Lily, 3 ft., has large funnel-shaped flowers in September, of a delicate rose colour.

Belladonna Lily 111   Erythronium Johnsoni 49   Dierama pulcherrima 112   Tecophil�a cyanocrocus 50 32.

The Belladonna Lily can only be grown satisfactorily in the open air in the milder parts of the kingdom.

There were bright scarlet geraniums, and starlike sweet-scented jessamines, and the gorgeous belladonna lily, with its large blossoms of rose-colour and white; and there were not only plants in flower, but bushes, and even trees, covered with gaudy and sweetly-perfumed blossoms.

There were bright scarlet geraniums, and starlike sweet-scented jessamines, and the gorgeous belladonna lily, with its large blossoms of rose-colour and white; and there were not only plants in flower, but bushes, and even trees, covered with gaudy and sweetly-perfumed blossoms.

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