ginger lily
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I hardly know why I always thought of her as the ginger-lily girl, except that it might have been because the flowers and flower-buds of the ginger-lily make big strenuous plaits in their thick stems exactly like the long coarse plaits of her hair."
- "The house was burning […] and I knew that I would never see Coulibri again. Nothing would be left, the golden ferns and the silver ferns, the orchids, the ginger lilies and the roses, the rocking-chairs and the blue sofa, the jasmine and the honeysuckle, and the picture of the Miller’s Daughter."
- "[…] the beaks / of fledgling ginger lilies gasped for rain."
- "Sliding glass windows opened so the hummingbirds could flit through, siphoning nectar from the cut ginger lilies."
Inflected Forms
ginger lilies (plural)