lilioid
Noun
Meaning
lilioid (plural lilioids)
(botany) Any of a grade of five monocot orders (Petrosaviales, Dioscoreales, Pandanales, Liliales and Asparagales) in which most species have flowers with relatively large, coloured tepals resembling those of a lily.
Examples
Older systems tended to place all lilioid monocots with reticulate veined leaves (such as Smilacaceae and Stemonaceae together with Dioscoraceae) in Dioscoreales.
The order Liliales was very large and had become a used to include almost all monocotyledons with colourful tepals and without starch in their endosperm (the lilioid monocots ).