NOUN | plant | clintonia, Clinton's lily | any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries |
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Meaning | Any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries. | |
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Synonym | Clinton's lily | |
Member of | genus Clintonia | sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae |
Narrower | queen's cup, bride's bonnet, Clintonia uniflora | plant with 1 or 2 white starlike flowers on short leafless stalks |
red Clintonia, Andrew's clintonia, Clintonia andrewsiana | plant with nearly leafless stalk topped by a cluster of red or reddish lavender flowers | |
yellow clintonia, heal all, Clintonia borealis | Common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits | |
Broader | liliaceous plant | plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber |
Spanish | clintonia | |
Catalan | clintonia |
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