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Noun: guinea-hen flower
  1. Eurasian checkered lily with pendant flowers usually veined and checkered with purple or maroon on a pale ground and shaped like the bells carried by lepers in medieval times; widely grown as an ornamental
    - snake's head fritillary, checkered daffodil [US], leper lily, Fritillaria meleagris, chequered daffodil [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: guinea-hen flowers

Type of: checkered lily [US], fritillary