CALLA LILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calla lily mean? 

• CALLA LILY (noun)
  The noun CALLA LILY has 1 sense:

1. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix

  Familiarity information: CALLA LILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALLA LILY (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 ("calla lily" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "calla lily"):

pink calla; Zantedeschia rehmanii (calla having a rose-colored spathe)

golden calla (any of several callas of the genus Zantedeschia having yellow spathes)

Holonyms ("calla lily" is a member of...):

genus Zantedeschia; Zantedeschia (calla lily)