a. Also 8 erron. lilaceous. [f. L. līliāceus, f. līlium lily: see -ACEOUS.] Pertaining to, or characteristic of, lilies or the order Liliaceæ; lily-like.
1731. Bailey, vol. II., Liliaceous, of, pertaining to, or like lilies, of the lily kind.
1775. Masson, in Phil. Trans., LXVI. 285. [A flower] of the lilaceous kind, with a long spike of pendulous flowers, of a greenish azure colour … (this is ixia viridis).
1785. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., i. (1794), 25. The calyx … is wanting in the greater part of the liliaceous tribe.
1845. Darwin, Voy. Nat., ii. (1852), 32. The large liliaceous plants which shaded the streamlets.
a. 1856. H. Miller, Test. Rocks, ii. (1857), 95. Aquatic plants and liliaceous roots.
