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snow-lily
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
any of several alpine plants of the genus Erythronium having white or yellow flowers.
See: avalanche lily
Quotations
1910
They dismounted and explored the great camps of workmen in the pass; they watched the boiling of the stream, which had carved the path of the railway; they gathered white dogwood, and yellow snow-lilies, and red painter's brush.