turk's cap-lily

1. 1.

   lily of the eastern United States with orange to red maroon-spotted flowers

   SynonymsTurk's-capLilium superbum

   Broaderlily

Questions about turk's cap-lily

What does turk's cap-lily mean?

turk's cap-lily means "lily of the eastern United States with orange to red maroon-spotted flowers".

What is another word for turk's cap-lily?

Close synonyms include Turk's-cap, Lilium superbum. 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 turk's cap-lily a common word?

turk's cap-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.