white lily
Pure funeral blossom
White lily refers to any of several lily species with white flowers, most commonly the Madonna lily or Easter lily.
The flowers are strongly associated with purity, innocence, and mourning—they appear at weddings, funerals, and in religious imagery, particularly depictions of the Virgin Mary.
White lilies filled the church for the Easter service.
- purityUncontaminated quality
- pure as snowEntirely without corruption
- weddingMarriage rite and feast
- funeralService honoring the dead
- EasterResurrection commemoration day
Easter Sunday · Madonna · petals · fragrance · bouquet · innocence · bride · bridal bouquet · vase · garden · trumpet · stamen · calla · stargazer · virgin · Virgin Mary · heaven · church altar
- liliesdaylily
- White Flowersgardenia, jasmine, snowdrop, paperwhite, edelweiss
- flowersroses, flower, tulips, daisies, orchids
- symbolic plantsolive branch, lotus flower, four-leaf clover, shamrock, red rose
- death symbolsskull, skeleton, coffin, tombstone, gravestone
- holiday plantspoinsettia, poinsettias, holly, mistletoe, Christmas cactus
white lilyblack rose
Impossibly dark flower
red rose · poppy · corpse flower · deadly nightshade · red carnation
white lilyred rose
Crimson flower of romance
scarlet woman · forbidden fruit · Venus flytrap · corpse flower · poppy
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