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noun
Any of the genus Crinum of perennial plants with large showy flowers on leafless stems, which develop from bulbs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, taxonomy
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History
Borrowed from translingual Crinum, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κρῐ́νον (krĭ́non, “lily”).
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