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CALLA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Water arum
Synonyms:
Calla; genus Calla
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Calla" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Calla"):
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)
Holonyms ("Calla" is a member of...):
Araceae; arum family; family Araceae (anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron)
Sense 2
Meaning:
South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix
Synonyms:
arum lily; calla; calla lily; Zantedeschia aethiopica
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("calla" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "calla"):
pink calla; Zantedeschia rehmanii (calla having a rose-colored spathe)
golden calla (any of several callas of the genus Zantedeschia having yellow spathes)
Holonyms ("calla" is a member of...):
genus Zantedeschia; Zantedeschia (calla lily)
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