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Definition of May lily
1. Noun. Low-growing perennial plant having usually two large oblong lanceolate leaves and a raceme of small fragrant nodding bell-shaped flowers followed by scarlet berries.
Generic synonyms: Liliaceous Plant
Group relationships: Convallaria, Genus Convallaria
Lexicographical Neighbors of May Lily
Literary usage of May lily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"The first is a native of Britain and many other parts of Europe. It flowers in
May : whence it has been named by some the may lily. ..."
2. The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc (1823)
"It flowers in May : whence it has been named by some the may lily. Gourde calls
it Con- vail Lily, and says that in some placet itii called ..."
3. The English Physician; Enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines by Nicholas Culpeper (1814)
"... or May-lily, with an eye of bluish upon the green, with some ribs therein,
and more yellowish underneath. At the foot of every leaf, almost from the ..."
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