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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Jacobaean lily \Jac`o*b[ae]"an lil"y\ [See {Jacobean}.] (Bot.) A bulbous plant ({Amaryllis, or Sprekelia, formosissima}) from Mexico. It bears a single, large deep, red, lilylike flower. [Written also {Jacobean}.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Jacobean \Ja*co"be*an\ (?; 277), Jacobian \Ja*co"bi*an\, a. [From L. Jacobus James. See 2d {Jack}.] Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First of England. ``A Jacobean table.'' --C. L. Eastlake. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Jacobean adj : of or relating to James I or his reign or times; "Jacobean writers" [syn: {Jacobean}] n : any distinguished personage during the reign of James I of England [syn: {Jacobean}]
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