Definition of Lilium martagon

1. Noun. Lily with small dull purple flowers of northwestern Europe and northwestern Asia.

Exact synonyms: Martagon, Turk's-cap
Generic synonyms: Lily

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lilium Martagon

Lilianna
Lilias
Lilibet
Liliidae
Liliopsida
Lilith
Lilium
Lilium auratum
Lilium canadense
Lilium candidum
Lilium catesbaei
Lilium columbianum
Lilium lancifolium
Lilium longiflorum
Lilium maritinum
Lilium martagon
Lilium michiganense
Lilium pardalinum
Lilium philadelphicum
Lilium superbum
Liliuokalani
Lille
Lillia
Lillian
Lillian Gish
Lillian Hellman
Lillian Russell
Lilliana
Lilliane
Lillianna

Literary usage of Lilium martagon

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

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"There are two series of nuclear divisions in the life-history of lilium martagon which exhibit twelve chromosomes iu place of twenty-four. ..."

2. Proceedings by Durham (England). Philosophical Society (1907)
"Material was collected in the summer of 1904 from a plant of Turk's Head Lily (Lilium Martagon, Linn.) for the sake of the large stamens and ovaries which, ..."

3. The British Florist: Or, Lady's Journal of Horticulture (1846)
"lilium martagon.—Height three feet; colour of the flowers purple ; flowers from ... Dark purple; height four feet; a native of Germany, j lilium martagon ..."

4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1903)
"... I have taken up the problem again, and have followed carefully both mitoses in the pollen mother-cells of lilium martagon, L. candi- dum, ..."

5. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1848)
"After careful inquiry respecting the woods or copses in which lilium martagon has been found, I have ascertained that no record exists in either instance of ..."

6. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"(1) lilium martagon, L.—Surr. Baxter. In gardens frequently called Turk's-cap Lily. Prior, p. ... lilium martagon, L.—Holme, Acad. of Armory, ii 65. Turnip. ..."

7. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"[An Account of Apogamy in Ferns]. Vol. i, p. 231. SARGANT. '96. The Formation of the Sexual Nuclei in lilium martagon. ..."

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