globe lily

Questions about globe lily

What does globe lily mean?

globe lily means "any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowers".

What is another word for globe lily?

Close synonyms include fairy lantern. 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 globe lily a common word?

globe 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.