Lantana Definition

lăn-tänə, -tănə
noun
Any of a genus (Lantana) of shrubby plants of the verbena family, growing in tropical and subtropical America and often cultivated as pot plants.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Lantana

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Singular:
lantana
Plural:
lantanas

Origin of Lantana

  • New Latin Lantana genus name from Italian dialectal lantana wayfaring tree, viburnum perhaps from Vulgar Latin lentāgō *lentāgin- from Latin lentus light, flexible

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

  • From the genus name.

    From Wiktionary

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