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Dogtooth Violet

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Noun

1. dog's-tooth violet, dogtooth, dogtooth violet

perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Dogtooth Violet

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noun
a name for various plants of the liliaceous genus Erythronium, esp the North American E. americanum, with yellow nodding flowers, or the European E. dens-canis, with purple flowers
. Also called: adders-tongue, fawn lily

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Dogtooth Violet

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US
any of a genus (Erythronium) of small plants of the lily family, esp. an American, early spring flower (E. americanum) with two mottled leaves and a yellow flower, or a European plant (E. denscanis) with a purple or rose flower

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Dogtooth Violet

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n.
Any of various plants of the genus Erythronium in the lily family, having leaves with reddish blotches and nodding, solitary flowers on leafless stems. Also called adder's-tongue, fawn lily, trout lily.

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