Calla : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Calla	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
calla n South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix Synonym(s): calla lily, calla, arum lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica water arum Synonym(s): Calla, genus Calla
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Calla \Cal"la\, n. [Linn[91]us derived Calla fr. Gr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?] a cock's wattes but cf. L. calla, calsa, name of an unknown plant, and Gr. [?][?][?][?][?] beautiful.] (Bot.) A genus of plants, of the order {Arace[91]}. Note: The common {Calla} of cultivation is {Richardia Africana}, belonging to another genus of the same order. Its large spathe is pure white, surrounding a fleshy spike, which is covered with minute apetalous flowers.