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Webster 1913 Edition

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(krī′nŭm)

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

κρίνον

lily.]

(Bot.)

A genus of bulbous plants, of the order

Amaryllidaceæ

, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.

See also: Crinum

crinum ‎(plural crinums)

Any of the genus Crinum of perennial plants with large showy flowers on leafless stems, which develop from bulbs.