mariposa : Idioms & Phrases

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desert mariposa tulip

  • noun mariposa with clusters of bell-shaped vermilion or orange or yellow flowers atop short stems; southern California to Arizona and Mexico
    Calochortus kennedyi.
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mariposa lily

  • noun any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals; southwestern United States and Mexico
    mariposa; mariposa lily.
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Ma`ri*po"sa lil`y
Etymology
Sp. mariposa a butterfly + E. lily. So called from the gay apperance of the blossoms.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) One of a genus (Calochortus) of tuliplike bulbous herbs with large, and often gaycolored, blossoms. Called also butterfly lily. Most of them are natives of California.
Webster 1913

mariposa tulip

  • noun any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals; southwestern United States and Mexico
    mariposa; mariposa lily.
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sagebrush mariposa tulip

  • noun mariposa having loose clusters of one to three handsome lilac flowers resembling umbels atop stout erect stems; arid northwestern North America east of Cascade Mountains from southern British Columbia to northern California
    Calochortus macrocarpus.
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yellow mariposa tulip

  • noun mariposa having clusters of a few large deep yellow bell-shaped flowers atop slender stems; California coastal ranges
    Calochortus luteus.
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