corn lily

noun

1

: hedge bindweed

2

: field bindweed

3

: wandflower sense 1

4

: a plant of the genus Ixia

5

: a tall white hellebore (Veratrum californicum) with broad plaited leaves and panicles of greenish flowers that is a characteristic floral element of moist upland meadows of the Sierra Nevada of California

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