Meaning of fire lily | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The orange lily.
2. A flowering plant of the amaryllis family, in the genus Cyrtanthus, native to southern Africa.
3. Synonym of flame lily (“Gloriosa lily whose petals look like wisps of flame”).

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Examples

“Red lips like gloriosas […] The more beautiful the gloriosa, the more poisonous […] Love's a gloriosa, […] love so fancy, it's the new vintage, / Fire lilies so orange planted in their hearts […]”

“Gloriosa (climbing lily, creeping lily, fire lily, flame lily , gloriosa lily, glory lily, superb lily)[…]”

“Gloriosa Lily. (Gloriosa spp.) (Fire Lily, Flame Lily, Creeping Lily, Cat's Claw) […]”

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