CALLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Calla mean? 

• CALLA (noun)
  The noun CALLA has 2 senses:

1. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix

2. water arum

  Familiarity information: CALLA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

arum lily; calla; calla lily; Zantedeschia aethiopica

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Water arum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Calla; genus Calla

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)