KALMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kalmia mean? 

• KALMIA (noun)
  The noun KALMIA has 1 sense:

1. any plant of the genus Kalmia

  Familiarity information: KALMIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KALMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Kalmia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("kalmia" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

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

American laurel; calico bush; Kalmia latifolia; mountain laurel; wood laurel (a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers)

bog kalmia; bog laurel; Kalmia polifolia; swamp laurel (laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath)

Kalmia angustifolia; lambkill; pig laurel; sheep laurel (North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock)

Holonyms ("kalmia" is a member of...):

genus Kalmia (erect evergreen shrubs: mountain laurel)