hemerocallis

1. 1.

   east Asian rhizomatous clump-forming perennial herbs having flowers on long leafless stalks; cosmopolitan in cultivation: day lilies; sometimes placed in subfamily Hemerocallidaceae

   Synonymsgenus Hemerocallis

   Broaderliliid monocot genus

   Part ofLiliaceae

Other forms of hemerocallis

plural

hemerocallises·

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 hemerocallis

What does hemerocallis mean?

hemerocallis means "east Asian rhizomatous clump-forming perennial herbs having flowers on long leafless stalks; cosmopolitan in cultivation: day lilies; sometimes placed in subfamily Hemerocallidaceae".

How many syllables are in hemerocallis?

hemerocallis has 5 syllables: he-me-ro-cal-lis. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for hemerocallis?

Close synonyms include genus Hemerocallis. 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 hemerocallis a common word?

hemerocallis 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.