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Caladium definition

kə-lādē-əm
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Any of a genus (Caladium, esp. C. bicolor) of tropical American plants of the arum family, grown for ornament because of their brilliantly colored, variegated leaves.
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Any of various tropical American plants of the genus Caladium widely cultivated for their ornamental foliage, variously patterned in white, green, pink, or red.
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Any of the genus Caladium of flowering plants.
  • Any of the ornamental cultivars of Caladium bicolor.
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A taxonomic genus within the family Araceae — tuberous plants with colorful leaves, naive to the tropical Americas, used for their ornamental purposes, elephant ears, heart of Jesus, angel's wings.
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caladium
Plural:
caladiums

Origin of caladium

  • New Latin Caladium genus name from Malay keladi an aroid

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

  • New Latin, from a language of the American tropics kale

    From Wiktionary

  • From the genus name.

    From Wiktionary

Caladium Sentence Examples

  • The hoactzin, Opisthocomus, feeds to a great extent upon the leaves of the aroid Montrichardia or Caladium arborescens.

  • In Arum the blade is simple, as also in the so-called arum-lily (Richardia), a South African species common in Britain as a greenhouse plant, and in Caladium, a tropical South American genus, and Alocasia (tropical Asia), species of which are favourite warm-greenhouse plants on account of their variegated leaves.

  • The following is a select list of genera of stove plants (climbers are denoted by *, bulbous and tuberous plants by f) Acalypha Achimenest Aeschynanthus Allamanda* Alocasiat Amaryllist Anthurium Aphelandra Aralia Ardisia Arisaemaf Aristolochia * Ataccia Begonia Bertolonia Bignonia* Bromeliads Cactus Caladium f Calathea Centropogon Cissus* Clerodendron * Crinumt Codiaeum (Croton) ORcftIDs.

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