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fairy lantern

fairy lantern noun: thismia rodwayi, a non-chlorophyllous plant of the family Burmanniaceae with a reddish-orange flower, found in parts of Australia and New Zealand.

fairy lantern: thismia rodwayi, a non-chlorophyllous plant of the family Burmanniaceae with a reddish-orange...
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Noun

fairy lantern (plural fairy lanterns)

  1. Thismia rodwayi, a non-chlorophyllous plant of the family Burmanniaceae with a reddish-orange flower, found in parts of Australia and New Zealand.

Forms of fairy lantern

pluralfairy lanterns

Questions about fairy lantern

What does fairy lantern mean?
Fairy lantern means thismia rodwayi, a non-chlorophyllous plant of the family Burmanniaceae with a reddish-orange flower, found in parts of Australia and New Zealand.
What part of speech is fairy lantern?
Fairy lantern is a noun.
What is the plural of fairy lantern?
The plural of fairy lantern is fairy lanterns.

Words near fairy lantern in the dictionary

  1. fairy kei
  2. fairy lace
  3. fairy lamp
  4. fairy lamps
  5. fairy land
  6. fairy lantern
  7. fairy lanterns
  8. fairy light
  9. fairy lights
  10. fairy lilies
  11. fairy lily

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