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ZANTEDESCHIA AETHIOPICA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Zantedeschia aethiopica mean?
• ZANTEDESCHIA AETHIOPICA (noun)
The noun ZANTEDESCHIA AETHIOPICA has 1 sense:
1. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix
Familiarity information: ZANTEDESCHIA AETHIOPICA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ZANTEDESCHIA AETHIOPICA (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 ("Zantedeschia aethiopica" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Zantedeschia aethiopica"):
pink calla; Zantedeschia rehmanii (calla having a rose-colored spathe)
golden calla (any of several callas of the genus Zantedeschia having yellow spathes)
Holonyms ("Zantedeschia aethiopica" is a member of...):
genus Zantedeschia; Zantedeschia (calla lily)
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