liriope

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English

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A Boeotian naiad (nymph) of Thespiae, said to be the mother of Narcissus.

"[…] neighbors often stop in summer to admire the lushness of the Japanese lilies and the lavender spires of the liriope."
"If it’s been a while since you’ve read it, the story, in Ovid’s telling, goes like this: Narcissus is born gorgeous, the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Liriope."

From the genus name.

liriopes (plural)

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