moon-lily

English

Noun

moon-lily (plural moon-lilies)

  1. Any of various plants with flowers that open at night, as datura or cereus.
    • 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 291:
      It was quite an expedition that Ida met, a kind of elfin's rout it looked in the moonlight, children and animals and a fairy-like presence with a face like a moon-lily, all scampering and squealing and whoofing and miauling in a merry game they were making of their progress.
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