Calla

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See also: calla, callá, and callà

Translingual

Calla palustris

Etymology

From Latin calla, applied to the genus as early as 1737 by Carl Linnaeus, from a single mention in Pliny the Elder's Naturalis historia that some scholars read as calsa, but most read as calyx.

Proper noun

Calla f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Araceae – the calla, native to the cool temperate regions of the northern hemisphere.

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