Definition of Arum lily

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

Exact synonyms: Calla, Calla Lily, Zantedeschia Aethiopica
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Genus Zantedeschia, Zantedeschia
Specialized synonyms: Pink Calla, Zantedeschia Rehmanii, Golden Calla

Definition of Arum lily

1. Noun. Any of several flowering plants, of the family ''Araceae'', but especially ''Zantedeschia aethiopica'', the calla lily that has a showy white spathe ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arum Lily

artwise
artwork
artworks
artworld
artworlds
arty
arty-crafty
arugola
arugolas
arugula
arugulas
arui
arum
arum family
arum lily (current term)
arums
arundiferous
arundinaceous
arundineous
arundinoid
arundinoids
arupite
aruspex
aruspices
aruspicy
arval
arval-bread
arvals
arvel

Literary usage of Arum lily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains by Julia W. Henshaw (1915)
"It resembles a huge arum lily, with the difference that in the Western Skunk Cabbage the spathe is erect and pointed, extends somewhat over the flower spike ..."

2. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by Esther Baldwin York (1906)
"... (the arum lily). The description of your tubers does not, however, at all fit those of the arum lily, but it applies to some of the other ..."

3. Transactions of the City of London Entomological and Natural History Society by City of London Entomological & Natural History Society (1907)
"arum lily " SPORT."-Mr. Riches exhibited an arum lily with a somewhat abnormal blossom, and a leaf white on the upper surface, save for a narrow border of ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... but in sweet-flag (Acorta Calamus) are long and narrow with parallel veins. In Arum the blade is simple, as also in the so-called arum-lily ..."

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