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Turk's-cap lily

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Turk's-cap lily

[turks-kap]
–noun
either of two lilies, Lilum martagon or L. superbum, having nodding flowers with the perianth segments rolled backward.
Also called Martagon lily.


Origin:
1785–95
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mar·ta·gon   (mär'tə-gən)   
n.  A Eurasian lily (Lilium martagon) usually having pinkish-purple, spotted flowers. Also called Turk's-cap lily.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Old Spanish, from Ottoman Turkish mārtaān, a kind of turban.]
Turk's-cap lily   (tûrks'kāp')
n.  
  1. Either of two North American lilies, Lilium michauxii or L. superbum, having orange-red, spotted flowers with a reflexed perianth.

  2. See martagon.


[From the rolled-back petals, resembling a turban.]
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