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n. - Any temperate liliaceous plant of a particular genus having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.

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  • At the foot of the mountain the clintonia, or northern green lily, and the low shadbush were showing their berries, but long before the top was reached they were found...
  • Yes, he was again singing, this time not far from the road, in a moderately thick growth of small trees, under which the ground was carpeted with club-mosses, dog-tooth...
  • Among such are the several wild cherries and plums, the amelanchiers and the dog-woods, the mountain ash, the sumachs and the thorns; all the large bramble tribe, with their...
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