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    FAIRY LANTERN

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowersplay

    Synonyms:

    fairy lantern; globe lily

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("fairy lantern" is a kind of...):

    liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fairy lantern"):

    Calochortus albus; white fairy lantern; white globe lily (globe lily having open branched clusters of egg-shaped white flowers; southern California)

    Calochortus amabilis; golden fairy lantern; yellow globe lily (globe lily having open branched clusters of clear yellow egg-shaped flowers; northern California)

    Calochortus amoenus; rose globe lily (globe lily with deep rose-pink or purple egg-shaped flowers on flexuous stems; western slopes of Sierra Nevada in San Joaquin Valley)

    Holonyms ("fairy lantern" is a member of...):

    Calochortus; genus Calochortus (large genus of western North American leafy-stemmed bulbous herbs)

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