Definition of Liliaceous plant

1. Noun. Plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Liliaceous Plant

likeworthy
likin
liking
likings
likins
likish
likuta
lil'
lilac
lilacin
lilacky
lilacs
lilangeni
liliaceae
liliaceous
liliaceous plant (current term)
lilial
lilied
lilies
lilies-of-the-valley
lilies of the valley
liliid monocot family
liliid monocot genus
liliopsid
liliopsid family
liliopsid genus
liliopsids
lill
lilled
lillianite

Literary usage of Liliaceous plant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lippincott's Medical dictionary: A Complete Vocabulary of the Terms Used in by Ryland W. Greene, Joseph Thomas (1906)
"Nodding wake-robin, a liliaceous plant, a native of New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, etc. It is reputed to be astringent, tonic, and antiseptic. ..."

2. Reports on Trade at the Treaty Ports by China Hai guan zong shui wu si shu (1880)
"... is the root-of a liliaceous plant cultivated in Szechwan, which is in great repute for the treatment of several diseases, but more especially fevers and ..."

3. Notes on Some Fijian Insects by Frederick Muir (1906)
"... two feed on Astelia (a liliaceous plant): ... (another liliaceous plant): monograma; one feeds on leaves of various species of beans: ..."

4. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1860)
"It is a liliaceous plant, growing all along the Bay of Bengal, around Ceylon, Java and the coast of China. ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"... excepting certain lignified cells which become incorporated in the haustoria. So also in this liliaceous plant, better known to many as ..."

6. Biennial Report by South Dakota, California State Board of Horticulture, State Athletic Commission (1890)
"Nolina Parryi, a large, liliaceous plant, is another of our desert perennials worthy of attention—equally as ornamental as the yucca. ..."

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