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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of monocotyledonous plants, of the natural order Liliaceæ, tribe Hemerocalleæ, chiefly distinguished by its erect flowers, and by having the tube of the funnelshaped perianth shorter than the spreading lobes, and the 6 stamens inserted in the throat of the tube.
  • noun A plant of this genus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.

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  • noun botany Any member of the genus Hemerocallis of daylilies.

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  • noun east Asian rhizomatous clump-forming perennial herbs having flowers on long leafless stalks; cosmopolitan in cultivation: day lilies; sometimes placed in subfamily Hemerocallidaceae

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin, from Greek hēmerokalles, a kind of lily : hēmera, day + kallos, beauty.]

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From the genus name.

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