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cow-lily

cow-lily is the alternative form of cow lily.

Meaning of cow lily

Noun

cow lily (countable and uncountable, plural cow lilies)

  1. A water lily of species Nuphar advena, of temperate eastern North America.
    • Bess amused herself the other day by making a large bouquet entirely of yellow flowers of different shades and varieties, and it looked like a city milliner's window in this present season of "tilleul," "old gold," and "saffron:" vivid coreopsis, with dark velvet centres; "butter-and-eggs," with...1878, Annie Trumbull Slosson, “More Daisy Farm Letters”, in The China Hunters Club, page 201

Forms of cow-lily

pluralcow-lilies

Questions about cow-lily

What is cow-lily the alternative form of?
Cow-lily is the alternative form of cow lily.

Words near cow-lily in the dictionary

  1. cow-hearted
  2. cow-hocked
  3. cow-juice
  4. cow-lick
  5. cow-lilies
  6. cow-lily
  7. cow-mother
  8. cow-mothers
  9. cow-nosed ray
  10. cow-orker
  11. cow-orkers

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