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Dahlia

Dah′lia

(däl′yȧ or dāl′yȧ; 277, 106)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Dahlias
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.
[Named after Andrew
Dahl
a Swedish botanist.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Compositæ; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color.

Definition 2024


Dahlia

Dahlia

See also: dahlia

Translingual

Dahlia flowers

Wikispecies

Etymology

Named by botanist Antonio José Cavanilles (1745-1804) after Swedish botanist Andreas Dahl (1751-1789).[1][2]

Proper noun

Dahlia f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – the dahlias.

Hypernyms

References

  1. Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
  2. Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.

English

Proper noun

Dahlia

  1. A female given name.
    • 2006 Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock, Chatto & Windus, ISBN 0701179899, page 175:
      The girls' names were April, Corinne, Gloria, Susannah, and Dahlia. I thought these names fanciful and lovely and would have liked the daughters' looks to match them, as if they were the beautiful children of an ogre in a fairy tale.

dahlia

dahlia

See also: Dahlia

English

Wikispecies

A dahlia flower

Noun

dahlia (plural dahlias)

  1. Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.

Translations

References

  • dahlia” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).