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Calla  n.  (Bot.) A genus of plants, of the order Araceae. 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.





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"Calla" Quotes from Famous Books



... me go!' she cried. 'I'll go away and away! What for did you fetch me from the Calla? None wants me. I wunna miserable at the Calla. Let ...
— Gone to Earth • Mary Webb
... this supervision was Mrs. Cairnes's mortal dread of the sun on her carpet; for the sun lay in that bay-windowed corner nearly all the day, and even though she filled the window full of geraniums and vines and calla-lilies she could not quite shut it out, till she resorted ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) • Various


Words linked to "Calla" :   genus Zantedeschia, flower, Zantedeschia aethiopica, monocot genus, liliopsid genus, genus Calla, Zantedeschia, arum lily, water arum, arum family, wild calla, Araceae, black calla


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