What's the difference between liliaceous and phormium?
Liliaceous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of which the lily, tulip, and hyacinth are well-known examples.
(a.) Like the blossom of a lily in general form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Large quantities of intact generative cells and their protoplasts were isolated from pollen protoplasts of four liliaceous plants, and their structural features were investigated.
(2) Morex) stems and leaf sheaths, was used to elucidate the chemical structures of several oligomeric fructans extracted from liliaceous and graminaceous species.
(3) The premeiotic and meiotic stages are described in the pollen mother cells of the liliaceous plant Eremurus.
(4) XET was detected in extracts of the growing portions of dicotyledons, monocotyledons (graminaceous and liliaceous) and bryophytes.
Phormium
Definition:
(n.) A genus of liliaceous plants, consisting of one species (Phormium tenax). See Flax-plant.