calla
noun
- 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
- the wild calla (Calla palustris), a bog plant of the arum family, having greenish-white spathes and bearing bright-red berries
See calla in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(kălˈə)
noun- A calla lily.
- A marsh plant (Calla palustris) of the North Temperate Zone, having small, densely clustered, greenish flowers partly enclosed in a spreading white spathe. Also called water arum.
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