mariposa lily

Questions about mariposa lily

What does mariposa lily mean?

mariposa lily means "any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals; southwestern United States and Mexico".

What is another word for mariposa lily?

Close synonyms include mariposa, mariposa tulip. 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 mariposa lily a common word?

mariposa 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.