What does lily of the incas mean?

lily of the incas means "an Andean herb having umbels of showy pinkish-purple lily-like flowers".

What is another word for lily of the incas?

Close synonyms include Peruvian lily, Alstroemeria pelegrina. 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 lily of the incas a common word?

lily of the incas 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.

lily of the incas — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1.
an Andean herb having umbels of showy pinkish-purple lily-like flowers
SynonymsPeruvian lily Alstroemeria pelegrina
Broaderalstroemeria
Part ofgenus Alstroemeria

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What does lily of the incas mean?: lily of the incas means "an Andean herb having umbels of showy pinkish-purple lily-like flowers".

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