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ARUM LILY

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

arum lily; calla; calla lily; Zantedeschia aethiopica

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Nouns denoting plants

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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