Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AM-A-RYL'LIS
AM-A-RYL'LIS, n. [The name of a country girl in Theocritus and Virgil.]
In botany, lily-daffodil, a genus of liliaceous plants of several species, which are cultivated in gardens for the beauty of their flowers. – Encyc.
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