tiger lily

tiger lily
1. a lily, Lilium lancifolium (or tigrinum), having dull-orange flowers spotted with black and small bulbs or bulbils in the axils of the leaves.
2. any lily, esp. L. pardalinum, of similar coloration.
[1815-25]

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