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cal·la  (kl)
n.
1. A calla lily.
2. A marsh plant (Calla palustris) of the North Temperate Zone, having small, densely clustered, greenish flowers partly enclosed in a spreading white spathe. Also called water arum.
[New Latin Calla, genus name, from Greek kallaia, wattle of a cock, perhaps from kallos, beauty.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.callacalla - South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix
arum lily, calla lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica
flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
genus Zantedeschia, Zantedeschia - calla lily
pink calla, Zantedeschia rehmanii - calla having a rose-colored spathe
golden calla - any of several callas of the genus Zantedeschia having yellow spathes
2.Calla - water arum
genus Calla
liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
Araceae, arum family, family Araceae - anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron
Calla palustris, water arum, wild calla - plant of wetlands and bogs of temperate regions having small greenish flowers partly enclosed in a white spathe and red berries


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