blackberry lily

noun

: a garden plant (Belamcanda chinensis synonym Iris domestica of the family Iridaceae) with lilylike leaves and clusters of orange red-spotted flowers whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry

Word History

First Known Use

1822, in the meaning defined above

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