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ARUM LILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arum lily mean? 

ARUM LILY (noun)
  The noun ARUM LILY has 1 sense:

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

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ARUM 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 ("arum lily" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arum 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 ("arum lily" is a member of...):

genus Zantedeschia; Zantedeschia (calla lily)


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