fairy lantern

Questions about fairy lantern

What does fairy lantern mean?

fairy lantern means "any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowers".

What is another word for fairy lantern?

Close synonyms include globe 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 fairy lantern a common word?

fairy lantern 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.