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CALLA PALUSTRIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Calla palustris mean?
• CALLA PALUSTRIS (noun)
The noun CALLA PALUSTRIS has 1 sense:
1. plant of wetlands and bogs of temperate regions having small greenish flowers partly enclosed in a white spathe and red berries
Familiarity information: CALLA PALUSTRIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant of wetlands and bogs of temperate regions having small greenish flowers partly enclosed in a white spathe and red berries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Calla palustris; water arum; wild calla
Hypernyms ("Calla palustris" is a kind of...):
bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)
Holonyms ("Calla palustris" is a member of...):
Calla; genus Calla (water arum)
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