white globe lily
- noun
- US
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lirio globo blanco
- In the spring, the hills were covered with blooming white globe lilies.
Examples
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The white globe lily blooms in spring.
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The delicate petals of the white globe lily shimmered in the sunlight.
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Botanists identified the rare white globe lily growing in the canyon.
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I saw a white globe lily in the garden.
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In the spring, the hills were covered with blooming white globe lilies.
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Botanists identified the rare white globe lily growing in the canyon.
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The delicate petals of the white globe lily shimmered in the sunlight.
Synonyms
A small wild lily with white cup-shaped flowers that grows in southern California
A plant with egg-shaped white flowers in open clusters on branched stems
A North American plant with small round flowers often grown in gardens
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjectival + noun compound: 'white' (color) + 'globe' (spherical) + 'lily' (a flowering plant), so the meaning — a lily with globe-shaped/rounded clusters that is white — is directly derivable from the constituents. This follows common adjective+noun and noun-noun compounding patterns without metaphorical shift, so a B1 learner who knows the parts should understand it.
Etymology
White globe lily comes from how the plant looks: white for its color, globe for the round groups of small flowers that look like a 'round ball', and lily because it is like other 'flowers'. So the name helps you picture a plant with white, ball-shaped 'flowers'.
