ˈday-lily
A lily, the flower of which lasts only for a day; a genus of liliaceous plants, Hemerocallis, with large yellow or orange flowers.
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal i. lxxiii. (ed. 1633), Day-lilie. This plant bringeth forth in the morning his bud, which at noone is full blowne, or spred abroad, and the same day in the evening it shuts itselfe. 1706 J. Gardiner tr. Rapin (1728) i. 48 (Jod.) Thou..Shalt of daylily the fair name receive. 1882 Garden 3 June 391/3 Bouquets are of yellow Day Lily. |