meaning of lily

1. A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary.
2. A name given to handsome flowering plants of several genera, having some resemblance in color or form to a true lily, as Pancratium, Crinum, Amaryllis, Nerine, etc.
3. That end of a compass needle which should point to the north; -- so called as often ornamented with the figure of a lily or fleur-de-lis.
4. Lily LIsp LibrarY A C++ class library by Roger Sheldon gsfc. nasa. gov> which gives C++ programmers the capability to write Lisp-style code. Lilys garbage collection mechanism is not sufficient for commercial use however and the documentation is incomplete. It is distributed under the GNU Library General Public License. Version: 0. 1. ftp://sunsite. unc. edu/uploads/lily-0. 1. tar. gz.
5. any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers

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