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gilliver

gilliver noun: a gillyflower.

Noun

gilliver (plural gillivers)

  1. A gillyflower.
    • Mother and son went into the small railed garden, where was a scent of red gillivers.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 6”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

Forms of gilliver

pluralgillivers

Questions about gilliver

What does gilliver mean?
Gilliver means a gillyflower.
What part of speech is gilliver?
Gilliver is a noun.
What is the plural of gilliver?
The plural of gilliver is gillivers.

Words near gilliver in the dictionary

  1. Gillisons
  2. Gillispie
  3. Gillispies
  4. Gilliss
  5. Gillisses
  6. gilliver
  7. gillivers
  8. gillless
  9. Gillman
  10. Gillmans
  11. Gillmor

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