anthurium

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Etymology

From the genus name.

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anthurium (plural anthuriums or anthuria)

  1. Any of several tropical American evergreen plants, of the genus Anthurium, grown for their ornamental leaves and spathes.
    • 1943, Alice Northrop Snow, The Story of Helen Gould, Daughter of Jay Gould, Great American, volume 1, New York, N.Y., London, Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company, page 124:
      A huge vase of scarlet anthuria and poinsettias, arranged with ferns, stood in the center.
    • 2008, Randall Peffer, Southern Seahawk: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea, Bleak House Books, →ISBN, page 204:
      He can already smell the anthuria and imagine the confetti of butterfly wings on his cheeks.
    • 2019, Helen Marshall, The Migration, Titan Books, →ISBN:
      The first thing I see is a sympathy bouquet from the Dean of New College—white roses, anthuria and orchids in a crystal vase next to the sink.
    • 2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 271:
      They gather the bouquets — pink gingers, yellow tiger lilies and white anthuriums they cut from the garden in the hills — and she follow him to a grave with a shiny new headstone.

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