Martagon meaning

mär'tə-gən
A Eurasian lily (Lilium martagon) usually having pinkish-purple, spotted flowers.
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A Turk's-cap lily (Lilium martagon) having white or purple flowers.
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Origin of martagon

  • Middle English from Medieval Latin perhaps ultimately akin to Ottoman Turkish mārtağān a kind of turban, martagon lily
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Ultimately from Turkish martagan
    From Wiktionary

Martagon Sentence Examples

  • They are very thick in Viscum album, and are well seen in Phaseolus inultiflorus and Lilium Martagon.

  • They are present from the beginning of the development of the cell-wail, and arise from the spindle fibres, all of which may be continued as connecting threads (endosperm of Tamus communis), or part of them may be overlaid by cellulose lamellae (endosperm of Lilium Martagon), or they may be all overlaid as in pollen mother-cells and pollen grains of Helleborus foetidus.

  • (1898); Sargant, The Formation of the Sexual Nuclei in Liiium Martagon, I.

  • cruentum latifolium, and three with pendulous flowers, apparently forms of the martagon lily.

  • Parkinson, in his Paradisus (1629), described five varieties of martagon, six of umbellate kinds - two white ones, and L.

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