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white lily

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Noun1.white lilywhite lily - lily of eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans with broad funnel-shaped white flowers
Annunciation lily, Lent lily, Lilium candidum, Madonna lily
lily - any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers
2.white lilywhite lily - white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians
Egyptian water lily, Nymphaea lotus, white lotus, lotus
water lily - an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae
genus Nymphaea, Nymphaea - the type genus of the family Nymphaeaceae; any of a variety of water lilies


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Instead of the white lily, which requires mud, or the common sweet flag, the blue flag (Iris versicolor) grows thinly in the pure water, rising from the stony bottom all around the shore, where it is visited by hummingbirds in June; and the color both of its bluish blades and its flowers and especially their reflections, is in singular harmony with the glaucous water.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
) Her creamy skin is as fair and flawless as the petals of a white lily.
The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
Now, however, she was all pale and drooping, like a fair white lily snapped at the stem; and so, with bent head and sorrowful look, she went within the church, Sir Stephen leading her by the hand.
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