toad lily

1. 1.

   a floating or creeping Indian lettuce having terminal racemes of pale rose flowers; wet areas at high elevations of western North America

   SynonymsMontia chamissoi

   BroaderIndian lettuce

Questions about toad lily

What does toad lily mean?

toad lily means "a floating or creeping Indian lettuce having terminal racemes of pale rose flowers; wet areas at high elevations of western North America".

What is another word for toad lily?

Close synonyms include Montia chamissoi. 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 toad lily a common word?

toad 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.