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Look up: Lily

  1. Lily
    (Lilium) This group consists of 80 to 90 perennial bulbs, of which most are hardy. True Lilies come from the group, Lilium. Many plants that have Lily as part of their common name are not true Lilies (i.e. Daylily comes from the group, Hermerocallis). Lilies come mainly from the temperate woodlands of the Northern Hemisphere; therefore, they do not like dry heat.They are usually found growing near shrubs and other plants that shade their roots and keep the bulbs cool and moist. Lil...
    Found on http://www.botany.com/lilium.html

  2. Lily
    Lily is a town in Day County South Dakota, USA
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. lily
    [n] - any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Lily
    (LIsp LibrarY) A C++ class library by Roger Sheldon (sheldon@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov) which gives C++ programmers the capability to write Lisp-style code. Lily's garbage collection mechanism is not sufficient for commercial use however and the documentation is incomplete. It is distributed under the GNU Library General Public License. Version: 0.1. (f...
    Found on http://foldoc.org/

  5. Lily
    Lil'y (lĭl'ȳ) noun ; plural Lilies (-ĭz). [ Anglo-Saxon lilie , Latin lilium , Greek lei`rion . Confer Flower-de- luce .] 1. (Botany) A plant and flower of the genus Lilium , endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three- celled ovary. » Th ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/42

  6. Lily
    Lil'y noun (Auction Bridge) A royal spade; -- usually in plural See Royal spade , below.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/42

  7. lily
    Origin: AS. Lilie, L. Lilium, Gr. Cf. Flower-de-luce. ... 1. <botany> A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six coloured pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary. ... There are nearly fifty species, all found in the North Temperate zone. Lilium candidum and L. Longiflorum a ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  8. lily
    noun any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. Lily
    • (n.) A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary. • (n.) That end of a compass needle which should point to the north; -- so called as often ornamented with the figure of a lily or fleur-de-lis. • (n.) A name given...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. lily
    the common name applied to herbaceous flowering plants belonging to the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae. The genus contains between 80 and 100 ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/l/50

  11. Lily
    Lily is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Lily Flower` Where is it used? The name Lily is mainly used In English.How do they say it elsewhere? Lilly ( In English) Lillie ( In English) Lilia ( In English) From Old English. Lily appears In 2007`s top-1000 name list at rank 27. In the last 128 years Lily has occupied a spot In the top 1000
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Lil

  12. lily
    lily, common name for the Liliaceae, a plant family numbering several thousand species of as many as 300 genera, widely distributed over the earth and particularly abundant in warm temperate and tropical regions. Most species are perennial herbs characterized by bulbs (or other forms of enlarged und...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08297


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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