tiger lily

Questions about tiger lily

What does tiger lily mean?

tiger lily means "east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for tiger lily?

Close synonyms include devil lily, kentan, Lilium lancifolium, leopard lily, pine 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 tiger lily a common word?

tiger lily is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.