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cow lilies

cow lilies is the plural 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

Questions about cow lilies

What is cow lilies the plural of?
Cow lilies is the plural of cow lily.

Words near cow lilies in the dictionary

  1. cow itches
  2. cow juice
  3. cow juices
  4. cow killer
  5. cow killers
  6. cow lilies
  7. cow lily
  8. cow magnet
  9. cow magnets
  10. cow meat
  11. cow milk

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