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Fairy lantern   /fˈɛri lˈæntərn/   Listen
Fairy lantern

noun
1.
Any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowers.  Synonym: globe lily.



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"Fairy lantern" Quotes from Famous Books



... of a tropical island the dirigible hung motionless in space for a breathless minute. There was a wavering pin-prick of light in the carriage suspended from the leviathan's belly—a light that fluttered fore and aft as of a man with a fairy lantern running to and fro giving orders or taking them. Then faintly discernible against the sky, like a rope hung down for anchorage, came a thin, gray streak—the tail of a bomb with all hell in its wake. From somewhere near the town's centre the earth split and ...
— World's War Events, Vol. I • Various



Words linked to "Fairy lantern" :   rose globe lily, Calochortus albus, white fairy lantern, white globe lily, Calochortus amabilis, liliaceous plant, yellow globe lily, Calochortus, genus Calochortus, globe lily, Calochortus amoenus



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