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Definition of Caladium
1. Noun. Any plant of the genus Caladium cultivated for their ornamental foliage variously patterned in white or pink or red.
Group relationships: Genus Caladium
Specialized synonyms: Caladium Bicolor
Definition of Caladium
1. n. A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food.
Definition of Caladium
1. Noun. Any of the genus ''Caladium'' of flowering plants. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caladium
1. a tropical plant [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caladium
Literary usage of Caladium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1825)
"( ) caladium BICOLOR. TWO-COLOURED caladium. Class and Order. ... The genus
caladium was very properly separated from ARUM, by M. VENTENAT. ..."
2. New and rare beautiful-leaved plants by Shirley Hibberd, James Shirley Hibberd (1870)
"... caladium. Natural Order— THIS is one of the most remarkable of the series of
caladiums collected by ..."
3. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Description of caladium bicolor, varieties of leaf coloration, ... A genus of
seven species of greenhouse or stove perennials with caladium-Yike rhizomes, ..."
4. Journal of a Tour Through the United States, and in Canada, Made During the by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1843)
"... large plant of the arum kind, the caladium pinnatifidum—a banis- teria—two
species of bombax—and others quite new to me. My servant shot several birds. ..."
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