cow lily
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.73 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A water lily of species Nuphar advena, of temperate eastern North America.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Bess amused herself the other day by making a large bouquet entirely of yellow flowers of different shades and varieties, and it looked like a city milliner's window in this present season of "tilleul," "old gold," and "saffron:" vivid coreopsis, with dark velvet centres; "butter-and-eggs," with spires of palest straw color and orange mingled; barberry blossoms in drooping sprays, buttercups with gold enamelled blossoms, "yellow daises,"^([sic]) a few late dandelions, the little "five-finger," and some yellow pond-lilies (they call them "cow-lilies" here)."
- "The Cow Lily is very common in still or stagnant water, often growing so profusely that passage in boats is almost impossible."
- "One seldom needs to stroll far along the shores of a pond or the sluggish inlet from a brook before finding the blossoms of the large yellow pond-lily, perhaps more often called the cow-lily."