atamasco lily

atamasco lily [at-uh-mas-koh, at-] Word Origin noun

1. a plant, Zephyranthes atamasco, of the amaryllis family, of the southeastern U.S., bearing a single white lilylike flower sometimes tinged with purple.

Origin of atamasco lily 1620–30, Americanism; earlier attamusco Virginia AlgonquianAlso called fairy lily.