any of several alpine plants of the genus Erythronium having white or yellow flowers.
See also: avalanche lily
- 1952  All about him patterns of color sprang suddenly from the sod, as if they had been evoked by the viewer . . . the first glacier lilies, slim and regally yellow.
- 1964  Up where the Glacier Lilies blow / Late May and June still sees fresh snow. . . .