Calla Definition

kălə
noun
The wild calla (Calla palustris), a bog plant of the arum family, having greenish-white spathes and bearing bright-red berries.
Webster's New World
Any of several plants (genus Zantedeschia) of the arum family, with a conspicuous white, yellow, or pink spathe surrounding a club-shaped, yellow spadix; specif., a plant (Z. aethiopica), having a large, showy, white spathe enclosing a yellow spadix.
Webster's New World
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A taxonomic genus within the family Araceae — the calla, native to the cool temperate regions of the northern hemisphere.

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Origin of Calla

  • New Latin Calla genus name from Greek kallaia wattle of a cock perhaps from kallos beauty

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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