plus something wrote:
> Thus I want to add a scientific name to "butterfly formed(shaped) lilly" in
> Latin.
> I named it "Lilium Papilia". Do you think it is right?

'papilia' is not a Latin word ....
Do you know about Latin declension?  Word endings are like the Japanese 
particles wo, no, ni, ... thus 'butterfly' can be:

	papilio
	papilionem
	papilionis
	papilioni
	papilione

Compound words are usually made by attaching -i- to the stem, so the 
adjective you want would begin 'papilioni-'; but I'm not sure what is 
the appropriate suffix.  Maybe 'papilioniformum'.

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