lycoris

[ lahy-ker-is ]

noun

1. any of several bulbous plants belonging to the genus Lycoris, of the amaryllis family, native to eastern Asia, bearing clustered, variously colored flowers that appear after the leaves have faded and disappeared.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lycoris¹

< New Latin (1821), apparently after Latin Lycōris, a woman celebrated in the love-elegies of the Roman poet Gallus

Example Sentences

In mid to late July, Lycoris, or resurrection lilies, come up for about a month, “and we try to mow it one more time after they fade, before it becomes pink with colchicums, the autumn crocus. In between, it looks like a mowed field, but that’s OK.”

From New York Times

On a precociously hot day in May, Avent takes me on a golf cart tour past fields of arums, lycoris, trilliums, crinums, epimediums, colocasias, baptisias and gingers — the botany begins to blur after a few hours under the beating Carolina sun.

From Washington Post

Brodi�a uniflora 51-52   Zephyranthes candida 114   Chionodoxa sardensisb 53   Crinum Powelli album 115   Erythronium Dens-Canis 54-55   Lycoris squamigerab 116 14.

From Project Gutenberg

Fair-browed Lycoris pines away Because her Cyrus loves another; The ruthless churl informs the girl He loves her only as a brother.

From Project Gutenberg

Virgil had early felt, that without Lycoris, the gelidi fontes and mollia prata would seem less refreshing and less smooth—he had found that the grass and the groves withered at the departure, but revived at the return of Phyllis.

From Project Gutenberg