Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LIL'Y, n. [L. lilium; Gr. λειριον; Sp. lirio.]

The English popular name of a genus of plants of many species, which are all bulbous-rooted, herbaceous perennials, producing bell-shaped, hexapetalous flowers of great beauty and variety of colors. – Encyc. Lily of the valley, a plant of the genus Convallaria, with a monopetalous, bell-shaped coral, divided at the top into six segments.