Guinea-hen flower Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Eurasian checkered lily with pendant flowers usually veined and checkered with purple or maroon on a pale ground and shaped like the bells carried by lepers in medieval times; widely grown as an ornamental
    checkered daffodil; snake's head fritillary; Fritillaria meleagris; leper lily.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a liliaceous flower (Fritillaria Meleagris) with petals spotted like the feathers of the Guinea hen.

Webster 1913