erythronium (ˌɛrɪˈθrəʊnɪəm) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| See also dogtooth violet any plant of the bulbous genus Erythronium, with decoratively mottled leaves and cyclamen-like yellow, rose, purple, or white flowers: family Liliaceae | |
| [New Latin, from Greek erythros red] | |
| erythronium | |
noun | |
| perennial bulbous herbs most of northern United States: dogtooth violet; adder's tongue; trout lily; fawn lily |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |