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English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Pronunciation
Noun
alstroemeria (countable and uncountable, plural alstroemerias)
- Any member of the genus Alstroemeria of South American flowering plants, the Peruvian lilies.
2007 February 20, Ellen Barry, “Eagerness and Some Resignation as Civil Union Law Takes Effect”, in New York Times:Now they were doing it again: Waiting, with a bouquet of alstroemeria and purple tulips, for Asbury Park’s deputy city clerk, D. Kiki Tomek, to take their application for a civil union in New Jersey .
Translations
any member of the genus Alstroemeria of South American flowering plants