daylily

1. 1.

   any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day

   Synonymsday lily

   Broaderliliaceous plant

   Narrowerlemon lily

   Part ofHemerocallis

Other forms of daylily

plural

daylilies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about daylily

What does daylily mean?

daylily means "any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day".

How many syllables are in daylily?

daylily has 3 syllables: day-li-ly. The stress falls on "day".

What is another word for daylily?

Close synonyms include day lily. 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 daylily a common word?

daylily 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.