ginger lily
ginger lily noun: any of several plants of the genera Alpinia and Hedychium belonging to the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).
Noun
ginger lily (plural ginger lilies)
- Any of several plants of the genera Alpinia and Hedychium belonging to the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).
- I hardly know why I always thought of her as the ginger-lily girl, except that it might have been because the flowers and flower-buds of the ginger-lily make big strenuous plaits in their thick stems exactly like the long coarse plaits of her hair.1964, H. E. Bates, “The Ginger-Lily Girl”, in The Fabulous Mrs V., Penguin, published 1970, page 57
- The house was burning […] and I knew that I would never see Coulibri again. Nothing would be left, the golden ferns and the silver ferns, the orchids, the ginger lilies and the roses, the rocking-chairs and the blue sofa, the jasmine and the honeysuckle, and the picture of the Miller’s Daughter.1966, Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, page 45
Forms of ginger lily
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Questions about ginger lily
- What does ginger lily mean?
- Ginger lily means any of several plants of the genera Alpinia and Hedychium belonging to the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).
- What part of speech is ginger lily?
- Ginger lily is a noun.
- What is the plural of ginger lily?
- The plural of ginger lily is ginger lilies.
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