"cow lily" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1878, Annie Trumbull Slosson, “More Daisy Farm Letters”, in The China Hunters Club, page 201:",
          "text": "Bess amused herself the other day by making a large bouquet entirely of yellow flowers of different shades and varieties, and it looked like a city milliner's window in this present season of \"tilleul,\" \"old gold,\" and \"saffron:\" vivid coreopsis, with dark velvet centres; \"butter-and-eggs,\" with spires of palest straw color and orange mingled; barberry blossoms in drooping sprays, buttercups with gold enamelled blossoms, \"yellow daises,\"^([sic]) a few late dandelions, the little \"five-finger,\" and some yellow pond-lilies (they call them \"cow-lilies\" here).",
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          "ref": "1910, Chester Albert Reed, Wild Flowers East of the Rockies, page 117:",
          "text": "The Cow Lily is very common in still or stagnant water, often growing so profusely that passage in boats is almost impossible.",
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          "ref": "1913, Clarence Moores Weed, Seeing Nature First, page 105:",
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          "word": "spatterdock"
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