GENUS CALLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Calla mean? 

• GENUS CALLA (noun)
  The noun GENUS CALLA has 1 sense:

1. water arum

  Familiarity information: GENUS CALLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CALLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Water arum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Calla; genus Calla

Hypernyms ("genus 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 "genus 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 ("genus Calla" is a member of...):

Araceae; arum family; family Araceae (anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron)