checkered lily

Questions about checkered lily

What does checkered lily mean?

checkered lily means "any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers".

What is another word for checkered lily?

Close synonyms include fritillary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is checkered lily a common word?

checkered lily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.