Akademik

Zantedeschia

noun

calla lily

• Syn: ↑genus Zantedeschia

• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Araceae, ↑family Araceae, ↑arum family

• Member Meronyms: ↑calla lily, ↑calla, ↑arum lily, ↑Zantedeschia aethiopica

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\\ˌzantəˈdeskēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Giovanni Zantedeschi died 1846 Italian botanist + New Latin -ia

: a small genus of southern or tropical African aroids with basal long-stalked often hastate leaves, very showy spathes usually mistaken for a corolla, and a stout central spadix — see calla 2, yellow calla

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zantedeschia /zan-ti-desˈki-ə/

noun

A plant of the Zantedeschia genus of the arum family (Araceae), including Zantedeschia aethiopica, known as the calla lily

ORIGIN: Giovanni Zantedeschi (1773–1846), Italian botanist

Useful english dictionary. 2012.