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Calla

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Noun

1. arum lily, calla, calla lily, zantedeschia aethiopica

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

2. calla, genus calla

water arum

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Calla

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noun
1. Also called: calla lily, arum lily
any southern African plant of the aroid genus Zantedeschia, esp Z. aethiopica, which has a white funnel-shaped spathe enclosing a yellow spadix
2. 
an aroid plant, Calla palustris, that grows in wet places and has a white spathe enclosing a greenish spadix, and red berries

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Calla

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noun
1. 
any of several plants (genus Zantedeschia) of the arum family, with a conspicuous white, yellow, or pink spathe surrounding a club-shaped, yellow spadix; specif., a plant (Z. aethiopica), having a large, showy, white spathe enclosing a yellow spadix
: also calla lily
2. 
the wild calla (Calla palustris), a bog plant of the arum family, having greenish-white spathes and bearing bright-red berries

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Calla

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n.
1. A calla lily.
2. A marsh plant (Calla palustris) of northern temperate regions, having small, densely clustered, greenish flowers partly enclosed in a spreading white spathe. Also called water arum.

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