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moon-lily en · NOUN
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Any of various plants with flowers that open at night, as datura or cereus.
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.
1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 291:
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