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glacier lily
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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any of several alpine plants of the genus Erythronium having white or yellow flowers.
See: avalanche lily
Quotations
1952
All about him patterns of color sprang suddenly from the sod, as if they had been evoked by the viewer . . . the first glacier lilies, slim and regally yellow.
1964
Up where the Glacier Lilies blow / Late May and June still sees fresh snow. . . .