fritillary

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Definition

noun any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers
noun butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver

From Latin fritillus (“dice-box, or possibly, checkerboard”).

He owned he might have been mistaken, as the brilliant fellow flew swift and high between leaves, like an ordinary fritillary. — The Amazing Marriage — Complete, George Meredith
Whites and brimstones, silver-studded fritillaries, peacocks, red admirals, and painted ladies, walls and ringlets, hairstreaks, blues, and skippers, even the little Duke of Burgundy, even the white and admirable Sibylla. — "Wee Tim'rous Beasties": Studies of Animal life and Character, Douglas English
And did not both men pluck him handfuls of cowslips, of tawny-pink avens, and of mottled, snake-headed fritillaries, and stow them away in the fishing-baskets above the load of silver-and-red spotted trout? — The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance, Lucas Malet

checkered lily

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