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Lilioid monocots
The lilioid monocots are a group of five orders of flowering plants, including Liliales and Asparagales, holding most showy six-tepaled monocots once placed in the lily family.
Lilit
Lilit is a Thai verse form in which the meters rai and khlong alternate with linking rhymes, from Sanskrit lalit; its most celebrated work is Lilit Phra Lo.
Lilit Manukyan (Լիլիթ Մանուկյան)
Lilit Manukyan (Լիլիթ Մանուկյան) is an Armenian-born Spanish television personality who won the 318,000-euro Pasapalabra jackpot in 2014 and later served as a chaser on El cazador.
Lilit Phra Lo
Lilit Phra Lo (ลิลิตพระลอ) is a Thai narrative poem of the Ayutthaya period retelling the northern legend of Phra Lo, whose love for the princesses Phuean and Phaeng ends tragically.
Lilit Phra Wetsandon
Lilit Phra Wetsandon is the Thai verse adaptation in lilit form of the Vessantara Jataka, the Buddha's penultimate birth story, retold in six surviving chapters.
Lilit Taleng Phai
Lilit Taleng Phai (ลิลิตตะเลงพ่าย) is a Thai epic panegyric poem by Prince Paramanuchit Chinorot of the Third Reign, celebrating King Naresuan's victory in the 1592 elephant duel.
Lilita Zagere
Lilita Zagere (Lilita Zāģere, born 1941) is a Latvian Soviet sprinter, 1965 USSR 400m silver medalist (53.5), 1966 European Championships competitor, and member of the 1969 Latvian SSR 4x400m world-record relay team; distinct from Emīlija and Agnese Zāģere.
Lilith (Darkstalkers)
Lilith (リリス, Ririsu) is a succubus in Capcom's Darkstalkers series, debuting in Vampire Savior (Darkstalkers 3, 1997) as a split-off essence of Morrigan Aensland given a body by Jedah, with light-themed mirrored moves and crossovers in Marvel vs. Capcom and Namco × Capcom.
Lilith (Diablo)
Lilith, the Blessed Mother or Mother of Sanctuary, is a Diablo franchise demoness, daughter of Mephisto, who with the angel Inarius created Sanctuary and the Nephalem, ancestors of humanity, and serves as Diablo IV's central antagonist.
Lilith (novel)
Lilith: A Romance, George MacDonald's 1895 fantasy novel, his last and most enigmatic, in which Mr. Vane enters a mirror-world where Adam's first wife Lilith is redeemed by surrendering her will.
Lilith (לילית)
Lilith (לילית) is a female demon of Jewish demonology: one word in Isaiah 34:14, a winged night demon in the Talmud and incantation bowls, Adam's first wife in the Alphabet of Ben Sira, and a modern feminist icon.
Lilith Clay
Lilith Clay, alias Omen, is a DC Comics precognitive telepath created by Robert Kanigher and Nick Cardy in Teen Titans #25 (1970); the sixth Teen Titan, founder of Titans West, killed in Graduation Day (2003).
Lilith Fair
Lilith Fair was an all-female touring music festival founded by Sarah McLachlan and Terry McBride, running 1997 to 1999 with a 2010 revival; it outsold all other North American touring festivals of 1997.
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery is a 2025 documentary directed by Ally Pankiw about Sarah McLachlan's 1997-1999 all-female touring festival, premiering at TIFF 2025 and on Hulu, CBC, and Disney+, drawing on 600 hours of archival footage.
Lilith Games
Lilith Games (莉莉丝) is a Chinese mobile-game developer and publisher founded in Shanghai in May 2013, best known for Rise of Kingdoms and AFK Arena.
Lilith in popular culture
Lilith in popular culture: the Jewish folkloric demon and Adam's first wife recast as seductress, feminist icon, and character in comics, TV, music, and games, from Rossetti and Goethe's Faust to Lilith Fair and The Sandman.
Lilith Sternin
Lilith Sternin, also Lilith Sternin-Crane, is the fictional psychiatrist played by Bebe Neuwirth on Cheers and Frasier: Frasier Crane's wife, then ex-wife, mother of Frederick, first appearing in 1986.
Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman
Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman is an 1885 narrative poem in five books by American poet Ada Langworthy Collier, retelling the rabbinic legend of Adam's first wife sympathetically, linking her name to the word lullaby.
Lilium
Lilium, the true lilies, is a genus of about 124 accepted bulbous flowering plants in Liliaceae, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, classified into Comber's seven sections, with East Asia as its diversity center and major horticultural hybrid groups.
Lilium 'Stargazer'
The Stargazer lily (Lilium 'Stargazer') is an Oriental hybrid lily bred by Leslie Woodriff in California in 1974, the first Oriental lily with upward-facing crimson, pink-edged flowers.
Lilium candidum
Lilium candidum, the Madonna lily or white lily, an eastern Mediterranean bulbous lily (Kew POWO), fragrant erect white trumpet flowers, Minoan frescoes c. 1600 BC, Virgin Mary's flower, bulbs used for shingles.
Lilium lancifolium
Lilium lancifolium, the tiger lily (syn. Lilium tigrinum), is a bulbous lily native from the Russian Far East to Japan and Tibet. Sterile triploid garden clone spreading by axillary bulbils; bulbs are official in Chinese Pharmacopoeia as Lilii Bulbus.
Lilium longiflorum (テッポウユリ)
Lilium longiflorum (テッポウユリ), the Easter lily or trumpet lily, is a white trumpet-flowered lily native to the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and the Philippines, forced for Easter sales and highly toxic to cats.
Lilium martagon
Lilium martagon, the martagon or Turk's cap lily (Turk's-cap lily), is a Eurasian bulbous lily described by Linnaeus in 1753, with nodding, recurved, spotted pink-purple flowers, native from SW and Central Europe to Mongolia.
Liliya Akhaimova
Liliya Akhaimova (Лилия Игоревна Ахаимова, born 1997) is a retired Russian artistic gymnast, Tokyo 2020 Olympic team gold medalist for ROC, 2018 European team champion, and two-time world team silver medalist; vault specialist.
Liliya Nurutdinova
Liliya Foatovna Nurutdinova (Лилия Фоатовна Нурутдинова), Russian 800 m runner; 1991 world champion, 1992 Olympic 800 m silver and 4x400 m relay gold for the Unified Team; banned for stanozolol in 1993.
Liliya Vasilyeva
Liliya Vasilyeva (Лилия Леонидовна Васильева), Russian cross-country skier born 1994 in Mozhga, Udmurtia; competed for ROC at Beijing 2022, 15th in the 10 km classic; Eastern Europe Cup winner; not the runner, swimmer, or gymnast Vasilyeva.
Lilla Jored
Lilla Jored, Kville parish, Bohuslän, Sweden: site of a rich Roman Iron Age chieftain's chamber grave (c. AD 300–400) excavated in 1816, with sword, gold rings, ceremonial belt, and a 17 g gold medallion imitating a Roman emperor.
Lilla Sojvide
Lilla Sojvide, Sjonhem parish, Gotland: farmstead and archaeological site with a large Early Iron Age grave field (RAÄ Sjonhem 1:1), the Type B picture stone GP 354, and a 1936 bronze deposit of neck-ring and arm spirals.
Lilla Weneda
Lilla Weneda is an 1839 Polish Romantic tragedy in five acts by Juliusz Słowacki, set in legendary prehistoric Poland during the Lechite conquest of the Weneds.