lilium columbianum

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   lily of western North America with showy orange-red purple-spotted flowers

   SynonymsColumbia tiger lilyOregon lily

   Broaderlily

Questions about lilium columbianum

What does lilium columbianum mean?

lilium columbianum means "lily of western North America with showy orange-red purple-spotted flowers".

What is another word for lilium columbianum?

Close synonyms include Columbia tiger lily, Oregon 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 lilium columbianum a common word?

lilium columbianum 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.