creeping lily

Questions about creeping lily

What does creeping lily mean?

creeping lily means "any plant of the genus Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia; a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers; all parts are poisonous".

What is another word for creeping lily?

Close synonyms include gloriosa, glory lily, climbing lily, Gloriosa superba. 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 creeping lily a common word?

creeping 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for creeping lily come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.